freesheet
See also: free-sheet and free sheet
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Alternative forms edit
- free sheet (paper industry)
- free-sheet
Etymology 1 edit
Noun edit
freesheet (plural freesheets)
- (chiefly UK) A free newspaper. [from 20th c.]
- 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 108:
- A helpful assistant suggested a local newspaper for English-speaking residents, but after a taxi ride to La Napoule I found only the back-street office of a free-sheet listing properties for sale, swimming-pool constructors and dealers in used Mercedes.
Translations edit
a free newspaper
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Etymology 2 edit
Shortening of groundwood-free + sheet
Noun edit
freesheet (countable and uncountable, plural freesheets)
- (paper industry) A sheet of paper that does not contain groundwood.
Translations edit
paper
References edit
- “freesheet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.