Apr 15, 2017 · If so, my analysis amounts to a rule in search of actual usage—a prescription rather than a description. In any event, the impressive rise of "free of" against "free from" over the past 100 years …

Feb 2, 2012 · What is the opposite of free as in "free of charge" (when we speak about prices)? We can add not for negation, but I am looking for a single word.

Aug 16, 2011 · A friend claims that the phrase for free is incorrect. Should we only say at no cost instead?

Apr 4, 2016 · I don't think there's any difference in meaning, although "free of charges" is much less common than "free of charge". Regarding your second question about context: given that English …

Mar 3, 2017 · In the context such as "free press", it means libre from censorship, "gluten-free" means libre from gluten and so on. Then there is "free stuff", why is the same word used?

My company gives out free promotional items with the company name on it. Is this stuff called company swag or schwag? It seems that both come up as common usages—Google searching indicates that the

If you are storing documents, however, you should choose either the mediumtext or longtext type. Could you please tell me what free-form data entry is? I know what data entry is per se - when data is fed …

May 10, 2019 · 8 "Free" and "on the house" both mean that you don't have to pay, but the inferred meaning is slightly different. If something is "free" it is without charge. For example, you might …

Saying free or available rather than busy may be considered a more "positive" enquiry. It may also simply mean that you expect the person to be busy rather than free, rather than the other way round. …

The fact that it was well-established long before OP's 1930s movies is attested by this sentence in the Transactions of the Annual Meeting from the South Carolina Bar Association, 1886 And to-day, “free …