free as in beer
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]free as in beer (not comparable)
- (used only predicatively) Free in the sense of costing no money.
- Synonyms: free, free of charge, costless, feeless, gratis
- Coordinate terms: free, free as in speech, free as in freedom, libre
- This app is free — free as in beer.
Usage notes
[edit]- This term and its counterpart free as in speech are mostly used in computing contexts, as for example when comparing traditional freeware (which may be proprietary) with free software (where anybody can access and modify the source code).