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cheap
[cheep] 
adjective, -er, -est, adverb, noun –adjective
| 1. | costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress. |
| 2. | costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap. |
| 3. | charging low prices: a very cheap store. |
| 4. | of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship. |
| 5. | embarrassed; sheepish: He felt cheap about his mistake. |
| 6. | obtainable at a low rate of interest: when money is cheap. |
| 7. | of decreased value or purchasing power, as currency depreciated due to inflation. |
| 8. | stingy; miserly: He's too cheap to buy his own brother a cup of coffee. |
–adverb
—Idioms| 9. | at a low price; at small cost: He is willing to sell cheap. |
| 10. | cheap at twice the price, exceedingly inexpensive: I found this old chair for eight dollars—it would be cheap at twice the price. |
| 11. | on the cheap, Informal. inexpensively; economically: She enjoys traveling on the cheap. |
Origin:
bef. 900; ME cheep (short for phrases, as good cheep cheap, lit., good bargain), OE cēap bargain, market, trade; c. G Kauf, ON kaup; all < L caupō innkeeper, tradesman; see chapman
bef. 900; ME cheep (short for phrases, as good cheep cheap, lit., good bargain), OE cēap bargain, market, trade; c. G Kauf, ON kaup; all < L caupō innkeeper, tradesman; see chapman
Related forms:
cheapish, adjective
cheap⋅ish⋅ly, adverb
cheaply, adverb
cheapness, noun
Synonyms:
1, 4. Cheap, inexpensive agree in their suggestion of low cost. Cheap now usually suggests shoddiness, inferiority, showy imitation, complete unworthiness, and the like: a cheap kind of fur. Inexpensive emphasizes lowness of price (although more expensive than cheap) and suggests that the value is fully equal to the cost: an inexpensive dress. It is often used as an evasion for the more specific cheap. 4. paltry, low, poor, inferior, base.
1, 4. Cheap, inexpensive agree in their suggestion of low cost. Cheap now usually suggests shoddiness, inferiority, showy imitation, complete unworthiness, and the like: a cheap kind of fur. Inexpensive emphasizes lowness of price (although more expensive than cheap) and suggests that the value is fully equal to the cost: an inexpensive dress. It is often used as an evasion for the more specific cheap. 4. paltry, low, poor, inferior, base.
Antonyms:
1. costly, dear, expensive. 8. generous, charitable.
1. costly, dear, expensive. 8. generous, charitable.
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| cheap (chēp) adj. cheap·er, cheap·est
Inexpensively: got the new car cheap. [From Middle English (god) chep, (good) price, purchase, bargain, from Old English cēap, trade, from Latin caupō, shopkeeper.] cheap'ly adv., cheap'ness n. |
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Cheap
Cheap\, n. [AS. ce['a]p bargain, sale, price; akin to D. Koop purchase, G. Kauf, ICel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.] A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.] The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe. --Shak.Cheap
Cheap\, a. [Abbrev. fr. "good cheap": a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon march['e], [`a] bon march['e]. See Cheap, n., Cheapen.]1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value. Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap. --Locke. 2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean. You grow cheap in every subject's eye. --Dryden. Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]Cheap
Cheap\, adv. Cheaply. --Milton.Cheap
Cheap\, v. i. To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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cheap
O.E. ceap (n.) "a purchase," from ceapian (v.) "trade," probably early Gmc. borrowing from L. caupo (gen. cauponis) "petty tradesman, huckster." Adj. sense of "that may be bought at small cost" first attested 1509, from god chep "favorable bargain," translation of Fr. a bon marche, a sense represented in O.E. by undeor. Sense of "lightly esteemed, common" is from 1591. Expression on the cheap is first attested 1888.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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cheap
- Of, relating to, or being a security that sells at a market price below what is expected given fundamental factors such as earnings, assets, and management ability. Determining whether a security is cheap is a subjective judgment. Compare expensive.
Wall Street Words: An A to Z Guide to Investment Terms by David L. Scott.
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cheap
In addition to the idioms beginning with cheap, also see dirt cheap; on the cheap.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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