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UK
/fɹˈiːləʊd/
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VERB
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live off somebody's generosity
This young man refuses to work and is freeloading
How To Use freeload In A Sentence
- This young man refuses to work and is freeloading
- From my low vantage point I noticed the back bumper of a bus we were behind had inverted nails fixed to it, presumably to keep freeloaders from hitching a ride.
- Swatter asks, How do you separate the needy from the lazies and freeloaders? Sound Politics: Strangernomics
- They look like a bunch of freeloaders trying to take advantage of the whole situation.
- They will attend as many cocktail parties, skiing holidays and hunt meetings as it takes to convince us they're not a bunch of privileged freeloaders.
- She was so popular with my friends and all the strays who freeloaded at our “house” that she began to have her own collection of adopted sons and daughters I never knew about. One From The Hart
- Thousands have moved abroad in search of work but some had been happy to freeload at the family home. Times, Sunday Times
- Thousands have moved abroad in search of work but some had been happy to freeload at the family home. Times, Sunday Times
- They were consummate freeloaders, shamelessly begging food and hospitality.
- A freeloader is a person who takes advantage of others 'generosity without giving anything in return. Reddit.com: what's new online!