Meaning of Giveaway | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Something that is given away or handed out for free.
2. An event at which things are given away for free.
3. The act of giving something away for free.
4. An indicator that makes something obvious or apparent.

Equivalents

Examples

“The T-shirt was a giveaway from the company that sells the software.”

“Then there's ole' reliable: the giveaway. Everyone loves a giveaway (with the notable exceptions of key chains and nail clippers which have been rendered nearly meaningless by repetition).”

“Perhaps the most frequently used giveaway is "free rent," an abatement of rent for a specific period of tenancy.”

“These giveaway bags cost tens of thousands of dollars, but the sentiment of a thank you for your guests is at the heart of those giveaway bags.”

“In this giveaway a person who has had something special happen to him gives gifts to others around him, so that they can share in his feelings.”

“His counterpart Tom Wiles also speaks directly for the honored persons in giveaways; in Shannon's outgoing princess giveaway, he addresses a woman named Rose as Shannon gives her a dance shawl: "Shannon says/ now you can kick up your heels" (Wiles 1999)”

“Following the feast the tables were cleared, making room for the giveaway.”

“This has been such a rewarding exercise for so many of us involved in the giveaway.”

“Frankly, I think extension of this policy to the nation through the Eisenhower administration policy of 'partnership' with private power monopoly would be the most colossal giveaway in history — 20 or 30 times as big as Teapot Dome or Tideland Oil.”

“Late May is the target date for giveaway of the new NPP FloraCopter game by retail Aorists to increase their “in-store traffic" and sales.”

“Nothing kills profits like product giveaway.”

“Near-synonyms: clue, sign, tell”

“The frosting in his beard was a giveaway that he had been munching the cake.”

“Their skin was the real giveaway: again and again it turned out to be fattier and softer than average and therefore warmer.”

“The real giveaway is its showing time's arrows pointing the wrong way: the universe contracting, or entropy spontaneously decreasing (as in the separation, with no energy input, of brine into fresh water and solid salt).”

“It was as obvious a giveaway as the deep slash marks across the human part of the torso, shredding the werewolf's clothes and staining the cloth with a deep burgundy of blood.”

“Therapeutic zeal is express in a number of ways, some of them quite obvious, others subtle. A therapeutic manner that is too self-assured and controlling is a dead giveaway. Other obvious signs of therapeutic zeal include getting annoyed or openly frustrated with patients who do not change in the way the therapist desires; "blaming" the patient by vidictively attributing lack of results to more severe pathology than was intially assumed; or overusing such terms as passive aggressive and poorly motivated.”

“In my research, I learned that the male had a little differently shaped head but that the real giveaway was that the male would periodically exhibit a bright orange to reddish colored "dewlap" extended under its throat while bobbing it's ^([sic]) head as an exhibition of his maleness.”

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