free-riding
C2CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
Exploiting the distinctive character or repute of a well-known mark to gain an unfair commercial advantage.
Selling perfumes under lookalike names was condemned as free-riding on the luxury house's reputation.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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