"free-ride" meaning in English

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      "form": "free-rides",
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    },
    {
      "form": "free-riding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "free-rode",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "free-ridden",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "expansion": "free-ride (third-person singular simple present free-rides, present participle free-riding, simple past free-rode, past participle free-ridden)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "word": "free ride"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008, Ananish Chaudhuri, Experiments in Economics: Playing Fair with Money, page 129",
          "text": "People might contribute in the beginning before they really understand the incentive structure of the game, but as comprehension dawns they realise that the rational thing to do would be to free-ride and start to do so, which leads to the resulting decay in the contributions to the public account.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Russell Hardin, David Hume: Moral and Political Theorist, page 77",
          "text": "Unfortunately, each and every one of us might have a positive incentive to try to free-ride on the efforts of others.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Paul D. Miller, Armed State Building: Confronting State Failure, 1898–2012, page 42",
          "text": "With decreased risk but increased potential rewards from the state-building operation, they may choose to free-ride on the operation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of free ride"
      ],
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  "word": "free-ride"
}

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    {
      "form": "free-rides",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "free-riding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "free-rode",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "free-ridden",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "2008, Ananish Chaudhuri, Experiments in Economics: Playing Fair with Money, page 129",
          "text": "People might contribute in the beginning before they really understand the incentive structure of the game, but as comprehension dawns they realise that the rational thing to do would be to free-ride and start to do so, which leads to the resulting decay in the contributions to the public account.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Russell Hardin, David Hume: Moral and Political Theorist, page 77",
          "text": "Unfortunately, each and every one of us might have a positive incentive to try to free-ride on the efforts of others.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Paul D. Miller, Armed State Building: Confronting State Failure, 1898–2012, page 42",
          "text": "With decreased risk but increased potential rewards from the state-building operation, they may choose to free-ride on the operation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of free ride"
      ],
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