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Meaning of "freegan" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD FREEGAN

From free + (ve)gan.
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PRONUNCIATION OF FREEGAN

freegan  [ˈfriːɡən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FREEGAN

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Freegan is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES FREEGAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

freegan

Freeganism

Freeganism is the practice of reclaiming and eating food that has been discarded. Freegans and freeganism are often seen as part of a wider "anti-consumerist" ideology, and freegans often employ a range of alternative living strategies based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans "embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed." The word "freegan" is a portmanteau of "free" and "vegan"; not all dumpster divers are vegan, but the ideology of veganism is inherent in freeganism. Freeganism started in the mid-1990s, out of the antiglobalization and environmentalist movements. The movement also has elements of Diggers, an anarchist street theater group based in Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco in the 1960s, that gave away rescued food.

Definition of freegan in the English dictionary

The definition of freegan in the dictionary is a person who, through opposition to capitalism and consumerism, attempts to live without buying consumer goods, recycling discarded goods instead.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FREEGAN


anlagen
ˈænˌlɑːɡən
Antiguan
ænˈtiːɡən
bergen
ˈbɜːɡən
cougan
ˈkuːɡən
Glamorgan
ɡləˈmɔːɡən
Gorgon
ˈɡɔːɡən
Hagen
ˈhɑːɡən
Iligan
ɪˈliːɡən
jargon
ˈdʒɑːɡən
Keegan
ˈkiːɡən
Morgan
ˈmɔːɡən
morgen
ˈmɔːɡən
Nimwegen
ˈnɪmveːɡən
Okanagan
ˌəʊkəˈnɑːɡən
organ
ˈɔːɡən
Siegen
ˈsiːɡən
Skagen
ˈskɑːɡən
Spitsbergen
ˈspɪtsˌbɜːɡən
Tinbergen
ˈtɪnˌbɜːɡən
vegan
ˈviːɡən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FREEGAN

freedom of expression
Freedom of Information Act
freedom of the seas
freedom rider
Freedomites
freedwoman
freedwomen
freefall parachuting
Freefone
freeganism
freehand
freehold
freeholder
freelance
freelancer
freeload
freeloader
freeloading
freely

WORDS THAT END LIKE FREEGAN

argan
began
cardigan
Changan
gan
hogan
hooligan
lagan
Lake Michigan
logan
michigan
Milligan
mulligan
pagan
ptarmigan
Reagan
Sagan
slogan
Tongan
Wigan

Synonyms and antonyms of freegan in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «freegan» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FREEGAN

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The translations of freegan from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «freegan» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

freegan
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

freegan
570 millions of speakers

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freegan
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

freegan
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

freegan
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

фриган
278 millions of speakers

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freegan
270 millions of speakers

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freegan
260 millions of speakers

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freegan
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Freegan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

freegan
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

フリーガン
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

freegan
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Freegan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

freegan
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

freegan
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

फ्रीगन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

freegan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

freegan
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

freegan
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

фріган
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

freegan
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Freegan
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

freegan
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

freegan
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

freegan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of freegan

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FREEGAN»

The term «freegan» is normally little used and occupies the 122.093 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FREEGAN» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about freegan

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FREEGAN»

Discover the use of freegan in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to freegan and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Freegan
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Frederic P Miller, Agnes F Vandome, John McBrewster, 2011
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Metro New York Off the Beaten Path®: A Guide to Unique Places
Giving Freeloaders a New Name Over the years, freegan groups have been sprouting up across the country, looking for ways to cut back on their consumer spending by dumpster diving coast to coast. Although the term “freegan” may be new, ...
Susan Finch, 2010
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Britannica Book of the Year 2009
Media reports often focused on freegan Dumpster diving— which freegans prefer to call by other names, such as urban foraging or gleaning—as an arresting image and intriguing practice. Less often reported was the principle of obtaining ...
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc, 2009
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The Art of Strategic Listening: Finding Market Intelligence ...
FIGURE 12.6 (top) Here I've set up a search on Blinkx to search consumer videos that contain the word "freegan." FIGURE 12.7 After the search was run, I could click on the RSS button to create a feed for this search. Once I entered that feed ...
Robert I. Berkman, 2008
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GameAxis Unwired
I am experiencing a Freegan Hangover now. It's pretty much like a normal hangover except worse because THERE ARE NO 1 BACON AND EGGS to make the pain go away. Three lessons learnt. One: the term "looking forward to lunch" does ...
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TAKING FOOD PUBLIC: Redefining Foodways in a Changing World
This movement correlates with freegan philosophy, activities and politics by advocating for people to live outside the capitalist system and hence not support environmental exploitation or social injustices embedded within capitalist power  ...
Psyche Williams Forson, Carole Counihan, 2013
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Excess: Anti-consumerism in the West
10 Freegan.info (www.freegan.info) is the major world site promoting a freegan lifestyle and politics focused on 'revealing human overconsumption and waste'. Freeganism (a combination of 'free' and 'vegan') employs 'alternative strategies ...
Kim Humphery, 2010
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"A Revolution We Create Daily": Freegan Alternatives to ...
Using direct action theory as a starting point, this dissertation uses the stories and experiences of particular freegans along with descriptions of their various tactics to better understand how contemporary activists organize and what ...
Kelly Ernst, 2010
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Living Anarchy: Theory and Practice in Anarchist Movements
Contemporary freegan gift exchanges are also acts of mutual aid and expressions of affinity. Significantly there is no sense of obligation among the anarchists and people are free to participate as they need to or as they see fit. As one freegan ...
Jeff Shantz, 2009
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Freegan.info: Because Stuff Doesn't Grow on Trees
Freegan Info is a zine resource about people who embrace an anti-capitalist, low-consumption and low-waste lifestyle.
Freegan.info NYC Chapter, 200

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FREEGAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term freegan is used in the context of the following news items.
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In Writing News: OED 2015 Adds Photobomb, Cisgender, Sext …
The Oxford English Dictionary added some new words this June, including cisgender, intersectionality, freegan, hot mess, photobomb, sext, ... «TheStranger.com, Jun 15»
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Bin-diving 'freegan' couple who scavenge supermarket leftovers …
A couple who scavenged leftover food from supermarket bins has failed to appear at court on theft charges after suffering from food poisoning. «Daily Mail, Jun 15»
3
Twerk, Meh, and Inukshuk Some of the New Words Added to Oxford …
Among the words added are freegan, meh, yarn bombing , and twerk. New Canadian words added include depanneur, inukshuk, mangia-cake, ... «KelownaNow, Jun 15»
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Oxford Dictionary embraces cisgender, twerk, arre, yaar, fo shizzle
'Cisgender', 'arre', 'yaar', 'churidhar' and 'bhelpuri' are some of the surprise entries following 'meh' , 'twitterati', 'freegan' and 'fo shizzle' in the ... «International Business Times UK, Jun 15»
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Freegan, skort and ecotown - just three of 500 new words in the …
Maybe you are a freegan who perhaps you wear a skort. In your spare time, you might get involved in some voluntourism or you might prefer ... «Bristol Post, Jun 15»
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14 Times When Minnows Did The Unthinkable And Stunned The …
2. freegan (n): A person who eats discarded food, typically collected from the refuse of shops or restaurants, for ethical or ecological reasons ... «Indiatimes.com, Jun 15»
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98FM's Morning News Fix
... he took and hurt caused. "Twitterati", "e-cigarette" and "freegan" are among 500 new words being added to the Oxford English Dictionary. «98FM, Jun 15»
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Oxford Dictionary Adds 'Photobomb', 'Sext', 'Twitterati', 'Sh*tshow'
Freegan: Someone who eats thrown away food as they hate waste. E-cigarette: Cig-shaped battery powered device containing nicotine. «360Nobs.com, Jun 15»
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'Freegan' who stole from supermarket bins given chance to turn his …
A self-styled 'freegan' who stole from supermarket bins after his benefits were suspended has been given a chance to turn his life around. «Sunderland Echo, Jun 15»
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How to live a middle-class life in New York City on less than $5000 a …
A dynamic, chestnut-haired woman and a freegan since 2004, Kalish, 52, saves all items from the trash and tries not to purchase anything but ... «The Guardian, May 15»

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