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free ride

(also free-ride)
 
 
verb [I] disapproving

Definition

to get an advantage without paying for it or earning it: free ride on sb/sth They continue to try to free-ride on the efforts of others to slow global climate change.
(Definition of free ride verb from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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