Timeline for What is it called when you "buy" something for free?
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| Jul 28 at 15:57 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | @jsw29: ty for flagging it up. Anyone would have been welcome to copy my comment into an answer, but since no-one has, it's only right and proper that I do so. | |
| Jul 28 at 15:55 | answer | added | FumbleFingers | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 28 at 15:31 | comment | added | jsw29 | @FumbleFingers, your suggestion, claim, seems (reasonably close to being) adequate for the purpose. Why not post it as an answer? The term captures the idea that there is some formality to the transaction, which makes it comparable to purchasing, and which is missing from take and pick up. | |
| Sep 21, 2023 at 7:25 | comment | added | ermanen | If in person, "order" doesn't work. However, there is no single verb for "to get for free" . "Buy for free" is a paradox. So just use "get for free", "receive for free" etc. - I've received 50 apples for free. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 21:25 | comment | added | alphabet | Are you looking for a verb (like "buy") or a noun (like "purchase")? | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 17:31 | comment | added | Weather Vane | I obtained 50 apples. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 14:13 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | You avail yourself of something useful / profitable / of value to you. But this is a hypernym (not necessarily free) and (worse) sounds highfalutin'. 'Benefit from their generous free offer, which is incidentally limited to x apples per person' is similar to what most would use. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 13:04 | comment | added | BillJ | In BrE the informal "buckshee" would be one possibility. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 12:08 | comment | added | TimR | Why my downvote? Because single-word-requirest that paint themselves into a corner (e.g. it must be a single noun or a single verb) or that ask for a word which must meet an impossible condition (buying something for free) or that are too particular in the set of requirements (a word for the sense of surprise you feel when someone you don't know is knocking at the door after sunset) are driving me insane. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 10:23 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Claim your free fruit at the checkout till. Limited to 50 apples per person per claim. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 10:16 | answer | added | Greybeard | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 8:29 | comment | added | Stuart F | Why are they giving stuff away? It might depend if it was a charitable thing or a subscription deal or a reward or a sales promotion or something like a state benefit/social security or a government-mandated compensation for past wrongdoings (e.g. if they'd previously ripped off customers and were told to make recompense). A general term such as get or collect would work for picking up, and you could reword your rule to Limited to 50 apples per person per day or per transaction or per order. | |
| Sep 20, 2023 at 8:28 | comment | added | user 66974 | You just order free goods on a website. | |
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