Crippleware is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Crippleware in a sentence
Crippleware meaning
A program whose functionality is severely limited beyond that of shareware, often in the interest of its author having the crippleware user make a purchase of the uncrippled program.
Using Crippleware
- The main meaning on this page is: A program whose functionality is severely limited beyond that of shareware, often in the interest of its author having the crippleware user make a purchase of the uncrippled program.
Context around Crippleware
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 0 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Crippleware
- In this selection, "crippleware" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 28.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, software, main, means and demonstrates stand out and add context to how "crippleware" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include crippleware main in and freemium and crippleware is essentially. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "crippleware" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with crippleware
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The distinction between freemium and crippleware is essentially that an unlicensed freemium program has useful functionality, while crippleware demonstrates its potential but is not in itself useful. (27 words)
Crippleware main In software, crippleware means that "vital features of the program such as printing or the ability to save files are disabled until the user purchases a registration key". (30 words)
Crippleware main In software, crippleware means that "vital features of the program such as printing or the ability to save files are disabled until the user purchases a registration key". (30 words)
The distinction between freemium and crippleware is essentially that an unlicensed freemium program has useful functionality, while crippleware demonstrates its potential but is not in itself useful. (27 words)
Example sentences (2)
Crippleware main In software, crippleware means that "vital features of the program such as printing or the ability to save files are disabled until the user purchases a registration key".
The distinction between freemium and crippleware is essentially that an unlicensed freemium program has useful functionality, while crippleware demonstrates its potential but is not in itself useful.