free of charge

1. 1.

   without payment

   “I'll give you this gratis”

   Synonymsgratisfor free

Questions about free of charge

What does free of charge mean?

free of charge means "without payment".

What is another word for free of charge?

Close synonyms include gratis, for free. 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 free of charge a common word?

free of charge 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.