freeware

English

Etymology

From free +‎ -ware, a contraction of software; Coined by Andrew Fluegelman

Noun

freeware (uncountable)

(computing) Complete and functional software that does not require payment or other compensation (such as nags or advertising) for its use. Freeware may be a proprietary license with no access to the source code.
Antonym: payware

Related terms

Translations

free of charge software

Chinese:
Mandarin: 免費軟件 (zh), 免费软件 (zh) (miǎnfèi ruǎnjiàn) (Mainland China, Hong Kong), 免費軟體, 免费软体 (miǎnfèi ruǎntǐ) (Taiwan)
Czech: freeware (cs) m
Estonian: vabavara
Finnish: freeware (fi)
French: graticiel (fr) m, gratuiciel (fr) m
German: Freeware (de) f

Greek: δωρισμικό n (dorismikó)
Japanese: フリーウェア (furīwea)
Korean: 프리웨어 (peuriweeo)
Malay: perisian percuma
Norwegian: gratisprogram n
Polish: freeware (pl) m
Portuguese: programa gratuito m, programa grátis m, software gratuito m, software grátis m
Russian: беспла́тное ПО n (besplátnoje PO), фри́ве́р m or n (frívɛ́r)

See also

Spanish

Noun

freeware m (plural freewares)

freeware

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