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Definition of freeloader in English: freeloadernoun ˈfriːləʊdəˈfriˌloʊdər derogatory, informal A person who takes advantage of others' generosity without giving anything in return. 〈非正式〉（利用别人的慷慨）占便宜的人，吃白食的人 Example sentencesExamples - It's as if someone's taken all the worst parts of every London venue, added in the usual freeloaders braying in your ear while the band are playing, and stuck them in an all-new, shiny place just to ruin any gig you fancy going to.
- If there are too many freeloaders that means thin soup and rice, and if nobody volunteers to cook, nobody eats.
- He noted that the absence of security around the salt pile probably led the freeloaders to just help themselves, but the loss has since motivated the company to put some security fencing around the dwindling salt pile.
- From my low vantage point I noticed the back bumper of a bus we were behind had inverted nails fixed to it, presumably to keep freeloaders from hitching a ride.
- They were consummate freeloaders, shamelessly begging food and hospitality.
- Callous freeloaders have been using a skip in St Mary's Cemetery, Carlow to dump their domestic refuse.
- In principle, she was concerned about the increasing lack of ‘interaction’ in the shop, not so much the fact that these Wi-Fi freeloaders were occupying space without buying a single cup of coffee.
- But some people deserve bad reputations - liars, cheats, freeloaders and others who manipulate and abuse our trust.
- From images of the single welfare mother to the overemphasis on welfare fraud, people in poverty are painted as lazy freeloaders who prefer to live off public tax dollars than be financially independent.
- Hundreds of freeloaders have skipped the park's $5 gate price, opting simply to view the pyrotechnics from the embankment on the north side of the road.
- I see Westminster and its enormous amount of freeloaders as being less and less relevant to me.
- They look like a bunch of freeloaders trying to take advantage of the whole situation.
- Refugees are frequently termed freeloaders and spongers by resentful Irish, even by certain politicians.
- Is a mother who receives a contribution towards a sterilisation unit for her baby's milk bottles a freeloader?
- You're much better off to be a freeloader - let other people have the kids who will be future taxpayers.
- Even though I've never committed a crime and don't have a criminal record, police have harassed me and physically harmed me - they seem to think all aboriginals are drunks or criminals or freeloaders.
- They will attend as many cocktail parties, skiing holidays and hunt meetings as it takes to convince us they're not a bunch of privileged freeloaders.
Derivativesverb ˈfriːləʊdˈfriˌloʊd [no object]derogatory, informal Take advantage of other people's generosity without giving anything in return. 〈非正式〉（利用别人的慷慨）占便宜的人，吃白食的人 why pay rent when you can freeload? Example sentencesExamples - a freeloading hanger-on
- They say sports writing is just another job, that it is work like anyone else's, and should not be described by disgruntled spectators who pay at the gate as freeloading.
- We've been freeloading on this planet long enough.
- I figure that once I reach the age when I'm no longer freeloading off the government (I don't pay taxes as yet), I'll get as self-righteous as the rest of them, and then maybe some more.
Definition of freeloader in US English: freeloadernounˈfriˌloʊdərˈfrēˌlōdər derogatory, informal A person who takes advantage of others' generosity without giving anything in return. 〈非正式〉（利用别人的慷慨）占便宜的人，吃白食的人 Example sentencesExamples - He noted that the absence of security around the salt pile probably led the freeloaders to just help themselves, but the loss has since motivated the company to put some security fencing around the dwindling salt pile.
- If there are too many freeloaders that means thin soup and rice, and if nobody volunteers to cook, nobody eats.
- It's as if someone's taken all the worst parts of every London venue, added in the usual freeloaders braying in your ear while the band are playing, and stuck them in an all-new, shiny place just to ruin any gig you fancy going to.
- I see Westminster and its enormous amount of freeloaders as being less and less relevant to me.
- Is a mother who receives a contribution towards a sterilisation unit for her baby's milk bottles a freeloader?
- Refugees are frequently termed freeloaders and spongers by resentful Irish, even by certain politicians.
- You're much better off to be a freeloader - let other people have the kids who will be future taxpayers.
- They look like a bunch of freeloaders trying to take advantage of the whole situation.
- They were consummate freeloaders, shamelessly begging food and hospitality.
- Callous freeloaders have been using a skip in St Mary's Cemetery, Carlow to dump their domestic refuse.
- Hundreds of freeloaders have skipped the park's $5 gate price, opting simply to view the pyrotechnics from the embankment on the north side of the road.
- From my low vantage point I noticed the back bumper of a bus we were behind had inverted nails fixed to it, presumably to keep freeloaders from hitching a ride.
- But some people deserve bad reputations - liars, cheats, freeloaders and others who manipulate and abuse our trust.
- From images of the single welfare mother to the overemphasis on welfare fraud, people in poverty are painted as lazy freeloaders who prefer to live off public tax dollars than be financially independent.
- They will attend as many cocktail parties, skiing holidays and hunt meetings as it takes to convince us they're not a bunch of privileged freeloaders.
- Even though I've never committed a crime and don't have a criminal record, police have harassed me and physically harmed me - they seem to think all aboriginals are drunks or criminals or freeloaders.
- In principle, she was concerned about the increasing lack of ‘interaction’ in the shop, not so much the fact that these Wi-Fi freeloaders were occupying space without buying a single cup of coffee.
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