Definition of "freeload" [freeload]

• Slang To take advantage of the charity, generosity, or hospitality of others. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Being covered by health insurance should actually reduce healthcare inflation because fewer people will 'freeload' off the system by forcing their health expenses to be written off."
• "I wouldn't take this to the bank: Freedom's Phoenix also hints that Barack Obama may be involved in the Kennedy assassination cover up, and that MRI brain scans can detect a tendency to "freeload" that could then be corrected through medical intervention."
• "For many Chinese firms, having Indonesians "freeload" as board members or senior management was a very unpalatable demand."