free alongside shipadv. & adj. Without charge to the purchaser for delivery to the point of loading aboard ship.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.free alongside ship adj (Commerce) (of a shipment of goods) delivered to the dock without charge to the buyer, but excluding the cost of loading onto the vessel. Abbreviation: FAS or f.a.s Also: free alongside vessel Compare free on board Collins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014