(adv.) For nothing; without fee or recompense; freely; gratuitously.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact, not only have the teams that failed to qualify not been invited to play, for if they were that would contradict the elitist terms of the qualification that are disavowed so cunningly here by Pitbull, but also in reality, only Fifa functionaries, Brazilian bureaucrats and half the BBC will get into Brazil's stadiums gratis this summer.
(2) This method is simple, safe, and the patch is gratis.
(3) Similar concentrations were determined for a second sample from the same source (Sample B), which was a gratis sample procured approximately nine years after Sample A.
(4) Breakfast (€6 extra) runs late and good espresso (rare in Madrid) is available gratis.
(5) Reports are submitted gratis to contributing pathologists and dermatologists.
(6) Meanwhile, the state pension – currently up to £115.95 a week, but rising to up to £155 for new pensioners as of April 2016 – is now linked to earnings, and despite occasional noise about such universal pensioner benefits as free prescriptions, gratis bus travel and the winter fuel allowance, they look set to remain in place.
(7) Nude F(1)mice that simultaneously received thymus gratis from both parents developed spleen cells restricted to both parental H-2 types.
(8) She worked there gratis because she hoped one day to be taken on by a museum or gallery.
(9) You don’t get much for free in Manhattan, and so when life offers you the chance to spend two hours in a church hall learning how to breastfeed twins simultaneously – gratis!
(10) Moviegoers' collective so-what response found an echo the following week, when Fox Searchlight Pictures lost in court to two unpaid interns who worked on Black Swan and sued for back pay, a potentially precedent-setting ruling that might put paid to the obscene phenomenon of the unpaid intern, a type ranging from the much put-upon digital field-hand whose "apprenticeship" is neither paid nor an apprenticeship, or the rich-kid digi-scab who can afford to work gratis, thinning out the workforce until it resembles the trust-funded lineup of The Strokes.
(11) That, along with tax-free pay and gratis accommodation.
(12) The care is gratis to advanced cancer patients and is based on the palliative philosophy of treatment of the symptoms and the person within the framework of continuity of care permitted by the oncologic approach.
(13) This paper discusses factors affecting dystocia and birth weight in Grati cattle in three villages in the Pujon district, East Java.
(14) The peer reviewing that ensures quality in these publications is likewise provided gratis by you and me, because the researchers who do it are paid from public money.
Gratuity
Definition:
(n.) Something given freely or without recompense; a free gift; a present.
(n.) Something voluntarily given in return for a favor or service, as a recompense or acknowledgment.
Example Sentences:
(1) I was and am very grateful – indeed I gave him very nearly a pound in gratuity.
(2) By transforming the provision of medical care in this way, the giving and accepting of gratuities for doctors could be terminated, not only in law but also in the economy.
(3) Although CBAP is not a true gratuitous inducer, operationally it approaches gratuity for induction of B. licheniformis penicillinase better than other known inducers.
(4) The induction studied under conditions of gratuity with the latter compound as an inducer showed immediate linear kinetics only at saturating inducer concentrations.
(5) He may have won some votes by stating: "I would like to make it clear as I did this past weekend that I am against the MP's gratuity bonus."
(6) A local guide would take us there and we could give him a gratuity if we wished.
(7) The habit of giving a gratuity became so frequent at the end of the 1950's that counter-measures were enacted.
(8) But the Pentagon said it cannot grant these families a "death gratuity" to cover the burial and other expenses as long as the budget impasse continues.
(9) · An eight-day holiday joining the Cottonwood Ranch Horse and Cattle drive starts from £1,040 per person including full board, transfers, taxes and gratuities.
(10) When 4 mM Ca2+ is added gratuitiously in the reaction mixture synthesizing prostaglandin E2 (PGE2) from arachidonic acid and cofactors by membrane associated microsomal multienzyme system (MES) prepared from goat seminal vesicles, one observes an immediate lag in the production of PGE2.
(11) The authorisation for the dam project was one of dozens of specific spending amendments introduced in the Senate deal, ranging from a “gratuity of $174,000 for the widow of Senator Lautenberg” (Frank Lautenberg, the long-serving New Jersey senator who died in June ) to “authority for activities to counter Lord’s Resistance Army” in Uganda.
(12) Although granting and accepting gratuities is forbidden by law, the wages of doctors have been fixed since 1954, for so long that accepting gratuities has come to be considered part of the wages, even in semi-official comments and in the media.