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- How to ask about ones availability? free available not busy?
Saying free or available rather than busy may be considered a more "positive" enquiry It may also simply mean that you expect the person to be busy rather than free, rather than the other way round Saying available rather than free is considered slightly more formal, though I wouldn't worry much about usage cases
- etymology - Origin of the phrase free, white, and twenty-one . . .
The fact that it was well-established long before OP's 1930s movies is attested by this sentence in the Transactions of the Annual Meeting from the South Carolina Bar Association, 1886 And to-day, “free white and twenty-one,” that slang phrase, is no longer broad enough to include the voters in this country
- You can contact John, Jane or me (myself) for more information
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- meaning - Release, free, or delete allocated memory? - English . . .
Well, the differences have more to do with the computer language behind them Delete is inappropriate Assuming C++ or similar, an object is being deleted, and its associated memory is automatically freed thereafter Free will be understood by any C-family programmer Release probably will be too but when you are writing for a C audience, stick with C terminology (Release is more often used
- What does There is no such thing as a free lunch mean?
I had always understood 'there's no such thing as a free lunch' as a expression to demonstrate the economics concept of opportunity cost - whereby even if the lunch is fully paid for, one loses the opportunity to spend that time doing anything else
- word choice - When is -less used, and when is -free used? - English . . .
By contrast, its father (who might have been thought responsible by some) could be adjudged blame-free when another explanation is found On the other hand, the mobile telephone that can be used in a hands-free manner would not sell very well if advertised as being hands-less
- Free meaning “free of charge” vs “unoccupied” - English Language . . .
I think the question title is a bit revealing - "free of charge" is not the only meaning of "free" I clicked into this question due to confusion - "free of charge" is completely unrelated to "unoccupied"
- orthography - Free stuff - swag or schwag? - English Language . . .
My company gives out free promotional items with the company name on it Is this stuff called company swag or schwag? It seems that both come up as common usages—Google searching indicates that the
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