"Really poor service. The guy at the printing counter definitely does not want to help customers and just acts annoyed. All around rude service."
Staples
3
18
3680 W Dublin Granville Rd, Columbus
OPEN · 08:00 - 20:00 · +1 614-766-6744
"I just wanted to pay for my singular pack of pencil lead and leave but Mark was very abrasive and pushy about the rewards program. He was literally guilting me into signing up for the rewards program and making me feel like an idiot for not wanting to. I said no, just let me pay and leave dude. He did the same for the guy in front of me too. I was in a good mood and was excited to start using my mechanical pencil again, but this made my day a little bit worse."
OfficeMax
3.5
11
1325 Polaris Pkwy, Columbus
OPEN · 08:00 - 19:00 · +1 614-436-9952
"Ryan in the Print area is the bomb! They are always kind and helpful! We will never go back to Staples."
Michaels
3
12
1614 Stringtown Rd, Grove City
CLOSE · 09:00 - 22:00 · +1 614-277-3446
"The girls working in this place have NO customer service skills. I practically had to beg one to show me where the wreaths were, she was very busy have a conversation with 2 of her coworkers. Then the cashier directed me to self checkout. SHE LITERALLY WASN'T RINGING ANYONE OUT. I explained I had coupons and would rather go to her but she said the computers did it and dismissed me. 5/15/24 around noon. All three girls were terrible."
If so, my analysis amounts to a rule in search of actual usage—a prescription rather than a description. In any event, the impressive rise of "free of" against "free from" over the past 100 years suggests that the English-speaking world has become more receptive to using "free of" in place of "free from" during that period.
I don't think there's any difference in meaning, although "free of charges" is much less common than "free of charge". Regarding your second question about context: given that English normally likes to adopt the shortest phrasing possible, the longer form "free of charge" can be used as a means of drawing attention to the lack of demand for ...
Similarly, “free education” is funded by the state (which is ultimately financed by taxpayers) and taught in state-run schools called state schools whereas schools that charge tuition fees are termed private schools. A private school in the US typically means fee-taking. Confusingly, in the UK, they are known as public schools.
In the context such as "free press", it means libre from censorship, "gluten-free" means libre from gluten and so on. Then there is "free stuff", why is the same word used?
My company gives out free promotional items with the company name on it. Is this stuff called company swag or schwag? It seems that both come up as common usages—Google searching indicates that the
If you are storing documents, however, you should choose either the mediumtext or longtext type. Could you please tell me what free-form data entry is? I know what data entry is per se - when data is fed into some kind of electronic system for processing - but I don't know how to understand the term free-form. Any thoughts? Thank you.
The fact that it was well-established long before OP's 1930s movies is attested by this sentence in the Transactions of the Annual Meeting from the South Carolina Bar Association, 1886 And to-day, “free white and twenty-one,” that slang phrase, is no longer broad enough to include the voters in this country.
With the advent of the free software movement, license schemes were created to give developers more freedom in terms of code sharing, commonly called open source or free and open source software.
