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- grammaticality - Is the phrase for free correct? - English Language . . .
A friend claims that the phrase for free is incorrect Should we only say at no cost instead?
- Word phrase for free flight rides given to pilots
I remember that pilots are given free flight rides on other flights and that there was a particular term phrase for this Any ideas?
- single word requests - The opposite of free in phrases - English . . .
Similarly, “free education” is funded by the state (which is ultimately financed by taxpayers) and taught in state-run schools called state schools whereas schools that charge tuition fees are termed private schools A private school in the US typically means fee-taking Confusingly, in the UK, they are known as public schools
- Free of vs. Free from - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
If so, my analysis amounts to a rule in search of actual usage—a prescription rather than a description In any event, the impressive rise of "free of" against "free from" over the past 100 years suggests that the English-speaking world has become more receptive to using "free of" in place of "free from" during that period
- What is the opposite of free, as in gluten-free free of gluten?
3 There is no universal one-word replacement for -free In the context of foods the appropriate portmanteau is gluten-containing -containing can be used universally, although there are other alternatives depending on specific food components (eg, sugared for sugar-free)
- etymology - Origin of the phrase free, white, and twenty-one . . .
The fact that it was well-established long before OP's 1930s movies is attested by this sentence in the Transactions of the Annual Meeting from the South Carolina Bar Association, 1886 And to-day, “free white and twenty-one,” that slang phrase, is no longer broad enough to include the voters in this country
- What is the opposite of free as in free of charge?
What is the opposite of free as in "free of charge" (when we speak about prices)? We can add not for negation, but I am looking for a single word
- What is the word for when someone gives you something for free instead . . .
What is the word for when someone gives you something for free instead of you paying for it? For example: Some shopkeeper is about to close his shop, and you catch him just in the nick of time, you get something (anything), nonetheless he's so hurried that he lets you take it for free
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