free ride
Speech parts
1. free ride - Noun
2. free ride - Verb
Meaning
(idiomatic) An opportunity or benefit which has no cost, especially one enjoyed or undertaken at the expense of others.
(finance) The practice of buying and selling shares or other securities without actually having the capital to cover the trade.
(poker) A hand in which a player can remain without betting further money.
To take a free ride; to take advantage of a benefit without contributing.
(finance) To buy and sell shares or other securities without actually having the capital to cover the trade.
free-ride (third-person singular simple present free-rides, present participle free-riding, simple past free-rode, past participle free-ridden)
Alternative form of free ride
Alternative names
free-ride
Examples
Look, I don't want to punish anyone's success, but the wealthy have been getting a free ride at the expense of the middle class for too long.
I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.
Atheists and the unchurched undervalue the extent to which they are getting a free ride on the social strength that religious-based virtue provides.
With effort, we can roll back poverty and the roadblocks to opportunity. Americans don't accept a free ride for anybody, nor do we believe in equality of outcomes. But we do expect equal opportunity.
These people –- our neighbors, our classmates, our friends –- they did not come here in search of a free ride or an easy life. They came to work, and study, and serve in our military, and above all, contribute to America's success.
I'm shocked at being recognized. You go to places you don't think you would be and still, you are. Taxi drivers often recognise me... but I haven't got a free ride yet.