free gift

free gift

An item that one will receive after making a particular purchase. Typically used as a way to motivate one to make the purchase. If you buy that perfume, you'll get a free gift with purchase—this cute makeup bag! I decided to get this after I saw the free gift advertised on the sign next to the display.
See also: free, gift
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

free gift

something extra given to you when you buy something else. When you order your magazine subscription, this book is yours to keep as our free gift. This canvas tote is a free gift for everyone who opens an account at our bank today!
See also: free, gift
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • box office
  • supply and demand
  • How much will it be?
  • buy up
  • last of the big spenders, the
  • in bulk
  • proof (one)
  • proofed
  • buy into, to
  • buy at
References in periodicals archive
The centre is also hosting a free event on Saturday when a human Statue of Liberty will make an appearance and help staff give out over 100 free gifts to visitors.
One of the biggest is the free gift valued at $9.99 for every online purchase made Cyber Monday while supplies last.
Every effort is being made during Ramadan to make the car buying experience easier, faster and cheaper and at the same time, for every customer to walk away with a valuable free gift.
Under the offer, every buyer receives a free gift of solitaire diamond jewellery on every piece of diamond jewellery above Rs15,000 purchased at one of the participating outlets.
Some featured special promotions like a discount coupon scheme or a free gift offer or an association with a favourite character like a Wallace and Gromit campaign.
Free gift for a pounds 6 spend PICK up a free gift at Boots 17 where shoppers spending pounds 6 or more receive a Parisian Nights set with mascara, glitter eyeshadow and nail varnish.
At the end of the 2m5f test, the frontrunning Free Gift and Mr Boo were 28 lengths clear of the third but inseparable from each other, after they went eyeball to eyeball up Folkestone's short home straight.
A spokesman said: "Shoppers who spend over pounds 10 will receive a fantastic free gift, while stocks last."
Free Gift can hit top form again for trainer Robert Alner and defy top weight in the SIS Handicap Chase at Taunton today.
"Your free gift? There's a token among your accreditation.
Promoters of website schemes offering expensive hi-tech gadgets as a 'free gift', in return for buying a low-value product, have given binding undertakings to the UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) that they will no longer promote the schemes.
Free Gift has been cut to 7-2 favourite from 5-1 for the Christie's Foxhunter Chase by Coral after a pounds 6,000 bet from a new telephone customer.
The band feature on our special free gift alongside the many other stars of Scotland's biggest pop party including Blue, Jamelia, Sugababes, Peter Andre, Natasha Bedingfield, Busted, Girls Aloud, Emma Bunton and Mark Owen.
Most of the Commission's plans involve establishing exactly the same rules in all EU countries for participation in promotions, such as EU-wide agreement not to promote alcohol as a free gift or prize to under-18s and not offering to young children potentially-dangerous products.
Or buy the complete range for just pounds 10 and get another free gift - a heart-shaped pendant set with an Austrian crystal and a chain to hang it from.