giveawaynoun

• 1

  Something that is given away or handed out for free.

  • The T-shirt was a giveaway from the company that sells the software.
  • Then there's ole' reliable: the giveaway. Everyone loves a giveaway (with the notable exceptions of key chains and nail clippers which have been rendered nearly meaningless by repetition).
• 2

  An event at which things are given away for free.

  • In this giveaway a person who has had something special happen to him gives gifts to others around him, so that they can share in his feelings.
  • His counterpart Tom Wiles also speaks directly for the honored persons in giveaways; in Shannon's outgoing princess giveaway, he addresses a woman named Rose as Shannon gives her a dance shawl: "Shannon says/ now you can kick up your heels" (Wiles 1999)
• 3

  The act of giving something away for free.

  • Frankly, I think extension of this policy to the nation through the Eisenhower administration policy of 'partnership' with private power monopoly would be the most colossal giveaway in history — 20 or 30 times as big as Teapot Dome or Tideland Oil.
  • Late May is the target date for giveaway of the new NPP FloraCopter game by retail Aorists to increase their “in-store traffic" and sales.
• 4

  An indicator that makes something obvious or apparent.

  • Near-synonyms: clue, sign, tell
  • The frosting in his beard was a giveaway that he had been munching the cake.

giveawayadj

• 1

  free of charge, at no cost.

• 2

  very low.

  • There was also the influx of a third of a million road lorries, sold at giveaway prices after their war roles ceased and used by competing one-man businesses to skim off sundry agricultural freight.