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freeloading

ADJECTIVE
parasitic
Synonyms


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Some users in Korea on social media have said cagonjok are also freeloading electricity.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2025

Netflix registered its third consecutive quarter of faster subscriber growth in the final three months of 2023, closing out a comeback year that included a crackdown on freeloading viewers and price hikes.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 15, 2024

People in the entertainment industry, and the media covering it, have been complaining about the HFPA’s freeloading and shakedown tactics for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2022

The fact is that salmon farming, as it has been practiced until recently, is a freeloading business.

From Salon • Sep. 18, 2022

I’d been in the same room with the ambassador every minute that he was in our house, and besides, that overstuffed, freeloading bureaucrat was too self-involved to ever commit murder.

From "Confessions of a Murder Suspect" by James Patterson