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A Dictionary of Sociology | 1998 | Copyright

free rider A person who takes advantage of a public good, or other collectively funded benefit, while avoiding any personal cost, or evading personal contributions to collective funding. Fare-dodging on the railway is (literally) free riding; as is, for example, benefiting from a wage-increase that results from strike action in which one took no part. See also collective action.

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