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Definition of Freeloaders
1. freeloader [n] - See also: freeloader
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freeloaders
Literary usage of Freeloaders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paradise Regained: Prospects for a New Social Order in the Third Millennium by Walter Prytulak (2000)
"6) Food Stamps are unfair because many freeloaders get free lunches in a system
where there are no free lunches, which demoralizes and punishes the workers. ..."
2. Affordable Step Toward Universal Coverage: Report By The Minnesota Health by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"The purpose of the penalty is to prevent "freeloaders." Freeloaders are persons
who can afford ..."
3. NATO's Future: Toward a New Transatlantic Bargain by Stanley R. Sloan (1995)
"2S At the same time, the European allies are described as "freeloaders"
and "pacifists" by American critics. Participants in European/American seminars now ..."
4. Status of the Department of Veterans Affairs to Identify Gulf War Syndrome edited by Christopher Shays (1998)
"His first explanation was on psychosomatic freeloaders. His second explanation
was on stress. That changed last December when Dr. Friedman's study came out. ..."
5. Lost Crops of Africa: Volume Ii: Vegetables by National Research Council (U. S.) (2006)
"The development of tissue-culture technology in recent decades provides a powerful
tool for cleaning out such hitchhiking freeloaders. ..."
6. Gently With the Tides: The Best of Living Aboard by Michael L. Frankel (1990)
""Gypsies, beatniks, and freeloaders," snort the city dwellers. "Jealousy," reply
the liveaboards. "Maybe we're resented because we're free from the ..."
7. The Great Limbaugh Con: And Other Right-Wing Assaults on Common Sense by Charles M. Kelly (1994)
"They are worse than freeloaders; they have gained money by injuring the system
that creates products and services. (Examples are unlimited. ..."
8. Beautiful Accommodation in Victoria and Tasmania, Australia: The Discerning by Jennifer Lamattina (2005)
"Cockatoos and rosellas are the most spectacular of the cheeky freeloaders, and
provide hours of entertainment. The cottages offer split-level accommodation ..."
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