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adjective

Cheap adj.

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."

Of comparatively small value; common; mean. "You grow cheap in every subject's eye."

Dog cheap, very cheap, a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. (Colloq.)

adverb

Cheap adv. Cheaply.

noun

Cheap n. 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."

verb

Cheap v. i. To buy; to bargain. (Obs.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the 12th, we had fish brought to us in abundance, and as cheap as we could desire. We this day weighed to make sail for the road; and, on this occasion, the king sent at the least threescore large boats, or gallies, well manned, to tow us into the harbour. On seeing this multitude ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr

... — N. {ant. to 812a} worthlessness, valuelessness[obs3]; lack of value; uselessness. [low value] cheapness, shoddiness; low quality, poor quality. [worthless item] trash, garbage. Adj. worthless, valueless; useless. [of low value] cheap, shoddy; slapdash. inexpensive &c. 815. Phr. not worth the paper it's printed ...

— Roget's Thesaurus • Peter Mark Roget

... before feared any household calamity now throws himself upon a live bomb, which, even though he might escape himself, will without his action kill other men who are near it. This deed loses none of its value because of the general belief among soldiers that life is cheap. Other men's lives are cheap. One's own ...

— Life in a Tank • Richard Haigh

... a smile at sight of the red line that marked the chafe of the collar against the bronzed neck. He was evidently unused to stiff collars. Likewise her feminine eye took in the clothes he wore, the cheap and unaesthetic cut, the wrinkling of the coat across the shoulders, and the series of wrinkles in the sleeves that ...

— Martin Eden • Jack London

... British Glass Master and Mixer. Sixty Recipes. Being Leaves from the Mixing Book of several experts in the Flint Glass Trade, containing up-to-date recipes and valuable information as to Crystal, Demi-crystal and Coloured Glass in its many varieties. It contains the recipes for cheap metal suited to pressing, blowing, etc., as well as the most costly crystal and ruby. Second Edition. Crown 8vo. Price 10s. 6d. net. (Post free, 10s. ...

— The Chemistry of Hat Manufacturing - Lectures Delivered Before the Hat Manufacturers' Association • Watson Smith

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