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free-loader

free-loader is the alternative form of freeloader.

Meaning of freeloader

Noun

freeloader (plural freeloaders)

  1. (colloquial) One who does not contribute or pay appropriately; one who gets a free ride, etc. without paying a fair share.
  2. (Canada, New Zealand, UK) A person who takes expired unsold merchandise from the back of supermarket premises.

Forms of free-loader

pluralfree-loaders

Questions about free-loader

What is free-loader the alternative form of?
Free-loader is the alternative form of freeloader.

Words near free-loader in the dictionary

  1. free-heel skiing
  2. free-lance
  3. free-liver
  4. free-livers
  5. free-living
  6. free-loader
  7. free-loaders
  8. free-lover
  9. free-lovers
  10. free-market
  11. free-market fundamentalism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: free-loader (page history and authors); freeloader (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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