freeriderとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

free rider (plural free riders)

1. One who gets a free ride on a ship, or similar; one who rides on a means of transportation gratis.

   Synonym: stowaway

2. (by extension) Someone who obtains goods or services legally without paying.

   Synonyms: freeloader; see also Thesaurus:scrounger

   The store failed because all of the manager's friends were free riders who drove paying customers away.

3. (economics) One who obtains benefit from a public good without paying for it directly.

   A lighthouse is the classic example of a public good because it is difficult to prevent a ship (a free rider) from using it.

   • 2024 December 12, Eric Cortellessa, “Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year”, in Time‎:

     Trump also promises to attack the sources abroad that he blames for the country’s malaise: economic interdependence, transnational criminals, traditional allies he sees as free riders on America’s long-running global beneficence.

4. (industrial relations) A worker at an open shop who is able to enjoy the benefits negotiated by a union without being a member of the union.

派生語

• free-rider problem

関連する語

• free ride

参考

• let George do it
• public good
• tragedy of the commons

参照

• “free rider”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “free rider”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.