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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
free + load + -er, originally US 1930s.
Pronunciation
Noun
freeloader (plural freeloaders)
- (colloquial) One who does not contribute or pay appropriately; one who gets a free ride, etc. without paying a fair share.
- Synonyms: free rider, moocher; see also Thesaurus:scrounger
- (UK, New Zealand, Canada) A person who takes expired unsold merchandise from the back of supermarket premises.
Derived terms
Translations
one who does not contribute or pay appropriately
- Azerbaijani: müftəxor
- Catalan: paràsit (ca) m, gorrer m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不速之客 (zh) (bùsùzhīkè), 食客 (zh) (shíkè)
- Dutch: klaploper (nl) m
- Finnish: siipeilijä (fi), siivellä eläjä, vapaamatkustaja (fi)
- French: resquilleur (fr) m, resquilleuse (fr) f
- Georgian: მუქთამჭამელი (muktamč̣ameli)
- German: Schmarotzer (de) m, Trittbrettfahrer (de) m, Schnorrer (de) m
- Greek: χαραμοφάης (el) m (charamofáis), παράσιτο (el) n (parásito), τζαμπατζής (el) (tzampatzís)
- Hungarian: potyaleső (hu), potyázó (hu)
- Irish: diúgaire m, súmaire m
- Italian: scroccone (it) m, approfittatore (it) m, parassita (it) m
- Japanese: 食客 (ja) (しょっかく, shokkaku, しょっきゃく, shokkyaku)
- Latin: parasītus m, parasīta f
- Macedonian: муфте́џија m (muftédžija), муфте́џика f (muftédžika), мо́лзач m (mólzač), мо́лзачка f (mólzačka), гага́џија m (gagádžija), гага́џика f (gagádžika)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gratispassasjer m
- Polish: sęp (pl) m, pasożyt (pl) m
- Portuguese: bicão m
- Russian: нахле́бник (ru) m (naxlébnik), нахле́бница (ru) f (naxlébnica), (slang) халя́вщик (ru) m (xaljávščik), халя́вщица (ru) f (xaljávščica), тунея́дец (ru) m (tunejádec), тунея́дка (ru) f (tunejádka)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: parazit m
- Spanish: gorrón (es) m, chupóptero (es), gallofero (es), garronero m (Arg., Ur.)
- Swedish: snyltare (sv) c
- Welsh: sbwnjwr m
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See also
Further reading
- Jonathon Green (2024) “freeloader n.”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- Eric Partridge (2005) “freeloader”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 1 (A–I), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 798.
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