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free-ride

free-ride is the alternative form of free ride.

Meaning of free ride

Verb

free ride (third-person singular simple present free rides, present participle free riding, simple past free rode, past participle free ridden)

  1. To take a free ride; to take advantage of a benefit without contributing.
    • Finally, the level of excludahility of a CPR should affect the propensity to free ride.1999, J. Samuel Barkin, George E. Shambaugh, Anarchy and the Environment, →ISBN
  2. To buy and sell shares or other securities without actually having the capital to cover the trade.

See all 5 meanings of free ride

Forms of free-ride

third-person singular presentfree-rides
present participlefree-riding
pastfree-rode
past participlefree-ridden

Questions about free-ride

What is free-ride the alternative form of?
Free-ride is the alternative form of free ride.

Words near free-ride in the dictionary

  1. free-mixes
  2. free-mixing
  3. free-range
  4. free-ranging
  5. free-ridden
  6. free-ride
  7. free-rider problem
  8. free-rides
  9. free-riding
  10. free-roam
  11. free-roamed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: free-ride (page history and authors); free ride (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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