freeload in the PONS Dictionary

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When this happens, the "webless spiders" just hang around the already-built nest and freeload on prey caught by the resident spider.
www.natureworldnews.com
This reduced the problems of drunken navvies and eliminated the local farm labourers freeloading from the food caravans.
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This isn't freeloading; it's a way of maximizing public benefit, and the public's money.
www.nydailynews.com
Racing pigeons are nothing like those freeloading fowl found perched around the city in the thousands.
torontoist.com
While the set up provided ample opportunities for competition, aggression and freeloading, the chimpanzees overwhelmingly performed cooperative acts - 3,565 times across 94 hour-long test sessions.
phys.org
The market doesn't care about whether someone is freeloading.
www.poynter.org
Dogs have always had their appeal as freeloading pets.
news.nationalpost.com
Its flower smells like a honeybee under attack -- an odour that freeloading, meal-seeking flies find absolutely irresistible.
www.gizmodo.com.au
Proponents of beach tags suggest that they improve the cleanliness and safety of the beaches, making them akin to user fees that prevent freeloading.
en.wikipedia.org
They are alternately cast as a pair of conmen actively out to swindle an unsuspecting dupeor just freeloading opportunists, idly in search of a free ride or mooching a meal.
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