Saying free or available rather than busy may be considered a more "positive" enquiry. It may also simply mean that you expect the person to be busy rather than free, rather than the other way …

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"Free" is an adjective, applied to the noun "will". In keeping with normal rules, a hyphen is added if "free-will" is used as an adjective phrase vs a noun phrase.

I had always understood 'there's no such thing as a free lunch' as a expression to demonstrate the economics concept of opportunity cost - whereby even if the lunch is fully paid for, one …

Well, the differences have more to do with the computer language behind them. Delete is inappropriate. Assuming C++ or similar, an object is being deleted, and its associated memory …

The fact that it was well-established long before OP's 1930s movies is attested by this sentence in the Transactions of the Annual Meeting from the South Carolina Bar Association, 1886 And to …

My company gives out free promotional items with the company name on it. Is this stuff called company swag or schwag? It seems that both come up as common usages—Google …

By contrast, its father (who might have been thought responsible by some) could be adjudged blame-free when another explanation is found. On the other hand, the mobile telephone that …

This phrase is all over the internet. They will say that something is free as in 'free beer' and free as in 'free speech'. I have never really understood this. Are these the examples of two differ...

If you are storing documents, however, you should choose either the mediumtext or longtext type. Could you please tell me what free-form data entry is? I know what data entry is per se - when …