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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fat-free
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fat-free/dairy-free etc
▪ a fat-free yoghurt
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
virtually
▪ Lunch Baked beans on wholemeal toast, virtually fat-free yoghurt, orange.
▪ They also are a good source of fiber and are virtually fat-free.
▪ Dinner Bolognese sauce made with lean mince, and wholemeal spaghetti. Virtually fat-free yoghurt for dessert.
▪ Rye bread, crispbread, or high-fibre crackers and low-fat spread, virtually fat-free yoghurt.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ fat-free yogurt
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Check for a crisp, mahogany-colored skin that will ensure a 96 relatively fat-free duck.
▪ Chips have lots of vitamin C and gherkins are fat-free, but mix with jacket spuds and calorie-free salads.
▪ Dinner Chilli con carne with brown rice, fresh green salad, fat-free yoghurt.
▪ Even recently, fat-free snack manufacturers have had a problem: People would buy the products, but only once.
▪ Twinkling sleighs, sporting six pairs of reindeer and a fat-free Santa, decorate even the most modest of houses.
▪ Virtually fat-free yoghurt or fromagefrais, or fresh fruit for dessert.
▪ Whatever the reason, people who believe that eating quantities of fat-free cookies is a smart nutrition strategy are deluding themselves.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
fat-free

fat-free \fat-free\ adj. containing no fat; -- of foods. Opposite of fat-containing.

Syn: fatless, nonfat.

Wiktionary
fat-free

a. Not containing fat.

WordNet
fat-free

adj. without fat or fat solids; "nonfat or fat-free milk" [syn: nonfat, fatless] [ant: fatty]

Usage examples of "fat-free".

It was a small, quite cosy place, crammed with shelves of china stacked trays and with lists and notices pinned on the walls, like the one extolling the reader to be careful--in red ink--and going on to give the advice--in blue ink--that old Tom was allergic to eggs, there were diabetic diets, salt-free diets, fat-free diets.

She served him cold cereal, fat-free yogurt, and fresh fruit, which made him grumble about healthy food being the death of him.

I declined my mother's dinner invitation, promised her I wouldn't wear jeans to the viewing, disconnected, and, doing pancake damage control, searched my refrigerator for fat-free food.

Before we had cell phones, microwave ovens, and fat-free potato chips with a diarrhea warning on the bag.

Begin with a salt-free diet for General Peckem and a fat-free diet for General Dreedle.

Yet even here, the hotel coffee shop offered a cholesterol-free egg-white omelet with fat-free tofu cheese and blanched broccoli.

Lucy picked up a package of fat-free crackers and opened the twist tie.