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
- The postage is cheap.
- It is cheap and tawdry.
- My daddy blanket's cheap and tatty.
- I assume that cheap is a desideratum.
- It is so cheap but robust and flavorful.
- Land was cheap and the country of opportunity.
- The fare was to be healthful, but plain and cheap.
- It's sometimes valuable, and the baggies are cheap.
- It's cheap and you sprinkle it around the baseboards.
- All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful.