shareware
Example Sentences
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The company was built on a shareware model, encouraging users to download antiviral software for free and pay later.
From Los Angeles Times
Our experience was more consuming shareware, you know, games where it was “try before you buy.”
From The Verge
It feels to me like all of these clunky, free, webtoon paper doll sites, pink online worlds, and inscrutable animal-raising shareware games were part of an early computing vocabulary for young women, in particular.
From The Verge
The DOS Games Archives promises clean shareware, freeware and public-domain software.
From New York Times
In addition to collaborating on the company’s games, he masterminded all of their early marketing campaigns and shareware distribution schemes, with astounding results.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.