on the house
on the house prepositional phrase: free, complimentary.
Prepositional phrase
- free, complimentary.
- This voucher entitles you to a free drink on the house.
- It is obviously a "plum" job, one distinction being that its motormen are granted an allowance of about 6s. [six shillings] towards the cost of Wagons-Lits food in the crew quarters of the train, [...]. Additionally, by the way, each man is allowed a quarter of a bottle of wine "on the house" per...1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 146
on the house meaning in Bengali and Malayalam
on the house in Bengali
- বিনামূল্যে, সৌজন্যমূলক
on the house in Malayalam
- free (of charge), without charge, at no cost
- സ്ഥാപനത്തിന്റെ കണക്കിൽ, സ്ഥാപനത്തിന്റെ ചെലവിൽ, സൗജന്യമായി, ഉപചാരം, ചുമ്മാ, ചുമ്മാതെ
Questions about on the house
- What does on the house mean?
- On the house means free, complimentary.
- What is on the house in Bengali?
- On the house in Bengali is বিনামূল্যে, সৌজন্যমূলক. See On the house meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is on the house?
- On the house is a prepositional phrase.
Words near on the house in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: on the house (page history and authors); on the house (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); on the house (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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