freesheet

See also: free-sheet and free sheet

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈfɹiːʃiːt/

Alternative forms

• free sheet (paper industry)
• free-sheet

Etymology 1

From free +‎ sheet.

Noun

freesheet (plural freesheets)

1. (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

a free newspaper

• Georgian: უფასო გაზეთი (upaso gazeti)
• Portuguese: jornal gratuito m
• Swedish: gratistidning c

Etymology 2

Shortening of groundwood-free + sheet

Noun

freesheet (countable and uncountable, plural freesheets)

1. (paper industry) A sheet of paper that does not contain groundwood.

Translations

paper

References

• “freesheet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.