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cheap

  [cheep] adjective, -er, -est, adverb, noun
Use cheap in a Sentence
–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
9. at a low price; at small cost: He is willing to sell cheap.
—Idioms
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

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.

Antonyms:
1. costly, dear, expensive. 8. generous, charitable.
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cheap   (chēp)   
adj.   cheap·er, cheap·est

    1. Relatively low in cost; inexpensive or comparatively inexpensive.

    2. Charging low prices: a cheap restaurant.

    3. Obtainable at a low rate of interest. Used especially of money.

    4. Devalued, as in buying power: cheap dollars.

    1. Obtainable at a low rate of interest. Used especially of money.

    2. Devalued, as in buying power: cheap dollars.

  3. Achieved with little effort: a cheap victory; cheap laughs.

  4. Of or considered of small value: in wartime, when life was cheap.

  5. Of poor quality; inferior: a cheap toy.

  6. Worthy of no respect; vulgar or contemptible: a cheap gangster.

  7. Stingy; miserly.

adv.   cheaper, cheapest
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.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

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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Financial Dictionary

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.
Copyright © 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Idioms & Phrases

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.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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