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free lunches

free lunches is the plural of free lunch.

Meaning of free lunch

Noun

free lunch (plural free lunches)

  1. (idiomatic) Something obtained without any payment, obligation or effort.
    • He had also been under some pressure from up the hill (Murray MacLehose) to spend more, on social welfare, on public housing, on medical and health, on law and order — an endless list of highly desirable causes as well as a few free lunches.1999 October 7, Joseph Yam, “A tribute to Philip Haddon-Cave”, in Hong Kong Monetary Authority, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2023

Questions about free lunches

What is free lunches the plural of?
Free lunches is the plural of free lunch.

Words near free lunches in the dictionary

  1. free livers
  2. free love
  3. free lover
  4. free lovers
  5. free lunch
  6. free lunches
  7. free market
  8. free marketeer
  9. free marketeering
  10. free marketeers
  11. free markets

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