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free riding

free riding is the present participle and gerund 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.

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Questions about free riding

What is free riding the present participle and gerund of?
Free riding is the present participle and gerund of free ride.

Words near free riding in the dictionary

  1. free ridden
  2. free ride
  3. free rider
  4. free riders
  5. free rides
  6. free riding
  7. free roam
  8. free roamed
  9. free roaming
  10. free roams
  11. free rode

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Adapted from Wiktionary: free riding (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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