cheap
IPA: tʃˈip
noun
- (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
- (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
- Price.
- (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
- Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
verb
- (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
- (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
- (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
- (transitive, obsolete) To sell.
adjective
- Low and/or reduced in price.
- Of poor quality.
- Of little worth.
- (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
- (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
- (computing) Taking little of system time or resources.
adverb
- Cheaply.
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Examples of "cheap" in Sentences
- Allow me to first address your use of the word "cheap."
- I use the term cheap since you got all the instances for a keyword for that measly price.
- I don't think this is the end of credible news, although the word cheap does come to mind.
- At the word cheap I felt a deep sense of dishonor, a sense that I now was at the lowest rung of this society, that I had fallen low.
- _cheap laborer_ -- cheap not because she is a poor laborer -- she is not; generally she is an admirable one -- quick to learn, faithful to discharge.
- House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith has made a career of fighting what he calls "cheap foreign labor," and one of his projects is to harass American business into becoming the enforcement agent for U.S. immigration laws.
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