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Definitions: Giveaway |
GiveawayNoun1. (informal) a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group. 2. An unintentional disclosure. 3. A television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: GiveawaySynonym: game show (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Giveaway |
| Specialty definitions using "giveaway": Packard Bell Electronics, Inc.. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Giveaway in condemning this shoddy misrepresentation of our modern navy. (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dead Giveaway (1995) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | Douglas Adams | |
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Trade | Portugal | Samples and advertising materials: As an EU country and member of the Convention to Facilitate the Importation of Samples and Advertising Matter, Portugal grants duty free entry to giveaway samples properly labeled (except Tobacco and Matches), up to a duty value of 175 Euros and up to a VAT (value added tax) value of the same amount. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Giveaway" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.78% of the time. "Giveaway" is used about 82 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.78% | 81 | 36,835 |
| Unclassified Items | 1.22% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 82 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "giveaway": giveaway price ♦ giveaway show. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "giveaway": scale-giveaway. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
giveaway | 1,423 | giveaway motorcycle | 17 |
giveaway womansday.com | 252 | home giveaway | 17 |
trade show giveaway | 144 | cash giveaway | 16 |
promotional giveaway | 114 | x box giveaway | 16 |
free giveaway linkdomain plane tickets.com | 103 | honeymoon giveaway | 16 |
free giveaway | 100 | giveaway womensday.com | 15 |
car giveaway | 56 | party giveaway | 15 |
giveaway guitar | 50 | giveaway harley | 15 |
wedding giveaway | 44 | enter giveaway win | 14 |
american free giveaway grant | 37 | grant giveaway | 14 |
free car giveaway | 32 | golf giveaway | 14 |
money giveaway | 28 | sweepstake giveaway | 13 |
corporate giveaway | 26 | davidson giveaway harley | 12 |
vacation giveaway | 25 | giveaway hummer | 11 |
computer giveaway | 21 | giveaway houston show trade | 11 |
giveaway oxiclean | 21 | government giveaway | 11 |
free money giveaway | 20 | billion dollar giveaway pepsi | 11 |
giveaway philippine wedding | 19 | advertising giveaway | 11 |
american giveaway | 19 | giveaway show texas trade | 10 |
contest giveaway | 18 | giveaway paintball | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "giveaway"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reclamegeschenk, reclamecadeau. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فاش کردن (Babble, Betray, Disclose, Divulge, Manifest, Peach, Reveal, Squeal, Tattle, Tell, Uncloak, Unfold, Utter), دست بدست دادن عروس وداماد, بذل (Munificence), بخشیدن (Bestow, Betake, Condone, Dispense, Donate, Forgive, Give, Grant, Indulgence, Pardon, Pleasure, Portion, Privilege, Remit, Spare, Vouchsafe). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cadeau publicitaire. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Werbegeschenk (advertising gift, advertising specialty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'לוי סו" (betrayal), ב'י"" (betrayal, disloyalty, perfidy, sell out, treachery, treason). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ráadás (admixture, encore, extra, long pull), potya dolog, kikottyantás, könnyű feladat (cake-walk, doddle, easy task), elárulás (betrayal, disclosure, divulgation), áruló nyom, áruló jel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | iveawaygay ganga (attle, bargain, burrow, gangue, gift, mullock, pickup, rubbish, snip), revelación involuntaria, regalo (a gift, bounty, donation, gift, give, offering, present, treat). (various references) การเปิ"เผย (revelation), ของอ ินันทนาการ. (various references) yarışma programı (giveaway show, quiz program, quiz show), ucuz (cheap, cheaply, dime, dirt cheap, inexpensive, keen, low, reach-me-down, trumpery, two bit), hediye (bounty, donative, Favor, favour, gift, gratuity, present, presentation), eşantiyon (pattern, sample), bedava gibi, ağzından kaçırma, açığa vurma (airing, apocalypse, disclosure, divulgation, divulgement, divulgence, revelation, ventilation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "giveaway": giveaways. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "giveaway" (pronounced gi"vuwā') |
| 3 | -u w ā' | breakaway, caraway, castaway, getaway, hideaway, rockaway, runaway, straightaway, throwaway. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-g-i-v-w-y" | |
-3 letters: agave, viewy, waive, wavey. | |
-4 letters: away, gave, give, gyve, vagi, view, viga, wage, wave, wavy, wive, yagi. | |
-5 letters: aga, age, ava, ave, awa, awe, aye, gae, gay, gey, gie, ivy, vaw, veg, via, vie, vig, wae, wag, way, wig, wye, yaw, yea, yew. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-g-i-v-w-y" | |
+1 letter: giveaways. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 69 76 65 61 77 61 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .. ...- . .- .--. .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01101001 01110110 01100101 01100001 01110111 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G i v e a w a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0069 0076 0065 0061 0077 0061 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4175887167896791 |
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