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free-to-play

free-to-play adjective: that can be played without payment.

Adjective

free-to-play (not comparable)

  1. That can be played without payment.

Noun

free-to-play (plural free-to-plays)

  1. (rare) A free-to-play video game.
    • HGM’s writers have spent time in the grindiest of grindy Korean and Japanese free-to-plays, but Free Realms is something new and different and better.2009 June, Lynxara [pseudonym; Alicia Ashby], Vivek Varadarajan, “Free Realms”, in Hardcore Gamer Magazine, volume 5, number 1, [Redmond, Wash.]: DoubleJump Publishing, →ISSN, page 12
    • Hit the Flash games, the demos, and the free-to-plays until you start to get your head wrapped around why people like them.2013 March, Jason VandenBerghe, “Design of the Times”, in Game Developer Magazine, volume 20, number 03, San Francisco, Calif.: UBM LLC, →ISSN, page 081, column 2

Antonyms of free-to-play

Forms of free-to-play

pluralfree-to-plays

Questions about free-to-play

What does free-to-play mean?
Free-to-play means that can be played without payment.
What part of speech is free-to-play?
Free-to-play can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near free-to-play in the dictionary

  1. free-throw lane
  2. free-throw lanes
  3. free-throw line
  4. free-throw lines
  5. free-to-air
  6. free-to-play
  7. free-to-plays
  8. free-tongued
  9. free-trade area
  10. free-trade areas
  11. free-trade zone

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