Usually means: No cost meal, economically misleading.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. free lunch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. free lunch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. free lunch: Vocabulary.com
  4. free-lunch: Wordnik
  5. free lunch: Wiktionary
  6. free lunch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. free lunch: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. free lunch: Dictionary.com
  9. Free Lunch, Free lunch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. free lunch: Rhymezone
  11. free lunch: Free Dictionary
  12. free lunch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Free Lunch: The Word Detective
  14. free lunch: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. free lunch: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Free Lunch: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (free lunch)

▸ noun:  (idiomatic) Something obtained without any payment, obligation or effort.

Similar:
free ride, gimme, free rider, freeness, free pass, paylessness, free-rider problem, ease, lunchlessness, free day, more...

Opposite:
paying for lunch, meal with cost

Phrases:
there's no such thing as a free lunch, theres no such thing as a free lunch, no free lunch, there is no such thing as a free lunch, no free lunch theorem, more...

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Similar:
free ride, gimme, free rider, freeness, free pass, paylessness, free-rider problem, ease, lunchlessness, free day, more...

Opposite:
paying for lunch, meal with cost

Phrases:
there's no such thing as a free lunch, theres no such thing as a free lunch, no free lunch, there is no such thing as a free lunch, no free lunch theorem, There ain't no such thing as a free lunch, more...



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