functional shift
noun
: the process by which a word or form comes to be used in another grammatical function
Word History
First Known Use
1930, in the meaning defined above
- free speech
- free spirit
- free spirits
- free spool
- Free State
- Free Stater
- free tenement
- free thought
- free throw
- free throw lane
- free time
- free trade
- free trader
- free union
- free university
- free variable
- free variation
- free verse
- free verses
- free vibration
- free water
- free weights
- free wills
- free with
- free world