(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.
Volunteer
Definition:
(a.) One who enters into, or offers for, any service of his own free will.
(a.) One who enters into service voluntarily, but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers; -- opposed to conscript; specifically, a voluntary member of the organized militia of a country as distinguished from the standing army.
(a.) A grantee in a voluntary conveyance; one to whom a conveyance is made without valuable consideration; a party, other than a wife or child of the grantor, to whom, or for whose benefit, a voluntary conveyance is made.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
(v. t.) To offer or bestow voluntarily, or without solicitation or compulsion; as, to volunteer one's services.
(v. i.) To enter into, or offer for, any service of one's own free will, without solicitation or compulsion; as, he volunteered in that undertaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) Theophylline kinetics, as an in vivo probe for the potentially toxic cytochrome P-450I pathway of drug metabolism, were studied in 11 healthy volunteers and 11 patients with calcific chronic pancreatitis at Madras, South India.
(2) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(3) 1 The effects of chronic ethanol intake on the elimination kinetics of antipyrine were determined in nineteen male alcoholic subjects with comparison made to fourteen male volunteers.
(4) They also demonstrate the viability of a family support service which relies on inmate leadership, community volunteer participation, and institutional support.
(5) Twenty volunteers were used for the measurement of pedal pressures for 15 trials during three separate sessions.
(6) Total body dose of 2,4-D was determined in 10 volunteers following exposure to sprayed turf 1 hour following application and in 10 volunteers exposed 24 hours following application.
(7) Under a revised deal most people are now being vetted on time, but charges for the service have had to rise from £12 and free vetting for volunteers, to £28 for a standard disclosure and £33 for an advanced disclosure.
(8) It has 200 volunteers each week to serve 38,000 individuals.
(9) Our campaign has been going for some time and each step in our progress has been hard won, by campaigners paid and volunteer alike.
(10) The viruses shed by the volunteers were indistinguishable from those with which they were inoculated.
(11) Five normovolemic patients undergoing cardiac catheterization for atypical chest pain syndrome volunteered for this study.
(12) In a second set of test sessions, volunteers chewed sugarless gum for 10 minutes, starting 15 minutes after they ate the snack food.
(13) A cross-over study (cimetidine, 1 g daily for 19 days; ranitidine, 300 mg daily for 19 days; wash-out period: 20 days) was carried out in six healthy volunteers.
(14) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
(15) DL 071 IT, a new potent non-selective beta-adrenergic blocking drug with intrinsic sympathomimetic activity and weak membrane stabilizing activity, was evaluated alone and in comparison with oxprenolol, in six volunteers, at rest and during an exercise test.
(16) Patch and photopatch tests with fibric acid derivatives and ketoprofen were performed in the patients, in 12 normal volunteers, and in 7 patients with photopatch-proven photocontact dermatitis to ketoprofen.
(17) Studies were undertaken in volunteers to determine whether living adenovirus type 21 (ADV-21) vaccine could be safely administered orally to susceptible young adults.
(18) Therefore, we tested the ability of ultrasound imaging to identify noninvasively the stomach contents of laboring and nonlaboring pregnant volunteers.
(19) Second, 6 healthy volunteers were studied while eating a constant diet of 20 g of fiber plus 30 radiopaque markers daily so that mean daily transit time could be measured.
(20) Chloroquine administration shortened the time taken to reach peak plasma paracetamol concentration (tmax) in five of the volunteers.