for the asking

1. 1.

   on the occasion of a request

   “advice was free for the asking”

   Synonymson request

Questions about for the asking

What does for the asking mean?

for the asking means "on the occasion of a request".

What is another word for for the asking?

Close synonyms include on request. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is for the asking a common word?

for the asking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.