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free to play

free to play is the alternative form of free-to-play.

Meaning of free-to-play

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

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Questions about free to play

What is free to play the alternative form of?
Free to play is the alternative form of free-to-play.

Words near free to play in the dictionary

  1. free throw percentage
  2. free throw percentages
  3. free throws
  4. free time
  5. free to air
  6. free to play
  7. free trade
  8. free trade area
  9. free trade areas
  10. free trade zone
  11. free trade zones

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