Upvoting indicates when questions and answers are useful What's reputation and how do i get it Instead, you can save this post to reference later. A friend claims that the phrase for free is incorrect Should we only say at no cost instead? Free is an adjective, applied to the noun will
Saying free or available rather than busy may be considered a more positive enquiry It may also simply mean that you expect the person to be busy rather than free, rather than the other way round Saying available rather than free is considered slightly more formal, though i wouldn't worry much about usage cases. Well, the differences have more to do with the computer language behind them Assuming c++ or similar, an object is being deleted, and its associated memory is automatically freed thereafter Release probably will be too but when you are writing for a c audience, stick with c terminology
My company gives out free promotional items with the company name on it Is this stuff called company swag or schwag It seems that both come up as common usages—google searching indicates that the If you are storing documents, however, you should choose either the mediumtext or longtext type I happen to find this use of the word irritating, but there is no doubt that it is widely used, at least in technology companies As you indicate, it will be misunderstood in some quarters, which might be a good reason for avoiding it
The question of whether or not it is proper is meaningless, unless you define the particular arbiter of manners who you want to defer to
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