(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.
Unnecessary
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(2) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(3) This may result in the unnecessary implementation of antidotal therapy.
(4) Thus, the enzyme-immunoassay shows specificity and sensitivity comparable to radioimmunoassay making use of radioactive tracer unnecessary.
(5) It is important to be aware of the histological characteristics of this essentially benign condition so that unnecessary radical therapies can be avoided.
(6) However, patients can be taught how to retard the onset of wrinkles by avoiding unprotected sun exposure, unnecessary facial movements, and certain sleeping positions.
(7) It is unnecessary to make any special more complicated incision designed to avoid lymphatics.
(8) In these cases, a thyroid scintiscan may avoid an unnecessary surgical intervention.
(9) The differentiation between the various modes of involvement is essential as some of them may be confused with recurrence and the clinician might resort to unnecessary drastic measures like enucleation.
(10) Check out the latest bill from Russia's parliament, the Duma: its aim is to ban the "unnecessary" usage of foreign words (in cases where there is a pre-existing Russian counterpart).
(11) Standard additions are unnecessary; Pt concentrations are read from a calibration chart of peak heights, which is linear up to 1.6 mg per liter.
(12) We encountered terrorists who wanted to kill us and we did everything we could to prevent unnecessary injury."
(13) Thus, modification in the dosage regimen of digoxin may be unnecessary in the case of coadministration with captopril.
(14) Only CT-guided or direct parasternal biopsy including immunhistochemistry can yield a reliable preoperative diagnosis and prevent unnecessary operation of lymphomas.
(15) The sonographic method, with a 97.7% specificity and a negative predictive value of 89.5%, proved to be specific enough to eliminate the necessity of routine catheterization for measuring residual bladder volumes of greater than or equal to 150 cm3, thus decreasing the incidence of some major postoperative complications that can occur due to unnecessary catheterization.
(16) With these scores we expect to facilitate the diagnostic screening, to indicate the way of therapy and to avoid unnecessary surgery for urinary incontinence in cases of motor-urge-incontinence (detrusor instability, unstable bladder), as long as a urodynamic examination is not feasible on every incontinent women.
(17) In some cases this has led to the misdiagnosis of mediastinal pathology and an unnecessary thoracotomy.
(18) No abdominal injuries were present in the group in whom the lavage results were negative, while no unnecessary laparotomies were performed in the group with a 4+ or 5+ positive DPL (calorimetric method).
(19) It would thus appear that repetition of the hCG injection at intervals of less than 4 days is unnecessary, and that a total stimulation period of 2-3 weeks is sufficient.
(20) The importance of ECG studies in these cases is stressed in order to establish the differential diagnosis and avoid unnecessary delays in the application of the proper therapy.