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English

Adjective

free as in beer (not comparable)

Positive free as in beer

Comparative not comparable

Superlative none (absolute)
  1. (used only predicatively) Free in the sense of costing no money; gratis.

Usage notes

This term and its counterpart free as in speech are mostly used in computing contexts, as for example when comparing traditional freeware (which may be proprietary) with open-source software (where anybody can access and modify the source code).

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