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Deverbal from give away.

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giveaway (plural giveaways)

1. Something that is given away or handed out for free.

   Synonym: freebie

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

   • 1983, Teleconnect: The Voice of the Telephone Interconnect Industry:

     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).

   • 1984, Journal of Property Management - Volumes 49-50 - Page 21:

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

   • 2005, Paulette Wolf, Jodi Wolf, Donielle Levine, Event Planning Made Easy:

     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.

2. An event at which things are given away for free.
   • 1987, Sun Bear, Edward B. Weinstock, The Path of Power, page 233:

     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.

   • 2001, Kathleen Glenister Roberts, Giving Away: The Performance of Speech and Sign in Powwow Ritual Exchange, page 104:

     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)

   • 2012, Chad Hamill, Songs of Power and Prayer in the Columbia Plateau, page 124:

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

   • 2015, Sarah Mayberry, Kelly Hunter, Megan Crane, The Great Wedding Giveaway:

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

3. The act of giving something away for free.
   • 1955, Ammunition - Volume 13, page 30:

     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.

   • 1965, Florist & Nursery Exchange - Volume 143, page 29:

     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.

   • 1990, Good Packaging - Volume 51, page 4:

     Nothing kills profits like product giveaway.

4. An indicator that makes something obvious or apparent.

   Hyponym: dead giveaway

   Near-synonyms: clue, sign, tell

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

   • 2006, Jonathan Petropoulos, John K. Roth, Gray Zones, page 140:

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

   • 2009, Robin Le Poidevin, Simons Peter, McGonigal Andrew, The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, page 452:

     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).

   • 2017, Brock Bloodworth, H. Claire Taylor, Shift Work:

     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.

   • 2018, John W. Barnhill, Approach to the Psychiatric Patient, page 451:

     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.

   • 2021, Alfonso K. Fillon, Green Anoles - How to Raise Green Anoles as a Real Life Hobby:

     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 head as an exhibition of his maleness.

派生語

• dead giveaway
• giveaway price

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形容詞

giveaway (not comparable)

1. (attributive) free of charge, at no cost.
2. (attributive, of prices) very low.
   • 2023 March 8, Howard Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 51:

     There was also the influx of a third of a million road lorries, sold at giveaway prices after their war roles ceased and used by competing one-man businesses to skim off sundry agricultural freight.

動詞

give away (third-person singular simple present gives away, present participle giving away, simple past gave away, past participle given away)

1. (transitive) To make a gift of (something).

   I didn't like that book, so I gave it away.

   • 2024 March 18, Andrew Marantz, “О.К., Doomer”, in The New Yorker, page 46:

     Some people gave away their savings, assuming that, within a few years, money would be useless or everyone on Earth would be dead.

2. (transitive, informal, by extension) To sell very cheaply.
   • 2019, David A. Ness, The Impact of Overbuilding on People and the Planet, page 36:

     This was dramatically illustrated by the market for commercial real estate in New York during 1993, which was said to be "so bad that they're giving it away".

3. (transitive) To relinquish control over.

   Coordinate term: give up

   • 2010 September, Stephen Schenkenberg, "Many Big Ideas, One Big Transition", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 16:

     This issue marks a first of its kind for St. Louis Magazine: We've given away our cover feature. […] In early summer, our editors […] posed a collective question: What if we asked some […] citizens what the future should look like? We'll give each of them […] 200 words of space in the magazine […] .

4. (transitive) To formally hand over a bride to the bridegroom; often by her father.

   Who giveth away this woman to this man in Holy matrimony?

5. (transitive, sometimes reflexive) To unintentionally reveal a secret or divulge undisclosed information; to betray or expose someone.

   Coordinate term: give up

   He gave himself away with a stupid lie.

   He gave away his hiding place when he accidentally sneezed.

   • 2009, “A Looking In View”, in Jerry Cantrell (lyrics), Black Gives Way To Blue, performed by Alice in Chains, Track 5:

     Hear footsteps creak the floor / The shadows give away / Someone outside the door / Won't let 'em in

6. (transitive) To concede an advantage in weight, time, height etc.

   Despite giving away twenty pounds in weight, the challenger found a knock-out blow in the second round.

7. (sports) To concede.

   Coordinate term: give up

   • 2011 September 18, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 41-10 Georgia”, in BBC Sport‎:

     England gave away six penalties in the first 15 minutes and were lucky to still have 15 men on the pitch, but Kvirikashvili missed two very makeable penalties in quick succession as Georgia were unable to take advantage of significant territorial advantage.

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