| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  ch p |
| ADJECTIVE: | Inflected forms: cheap·er, cheap·est
1a. Relatively low in cost; inexpensive or comparatively inexpensive. b. Charging low prices: a cheap restaurant. 2a. Obtainable at a low rate of interest. Used especially of money. b. 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. | | ADVERB: | Inflected forms: cheaper, cheapest
Inexpensively: got the new car cheap. | | IDIOMS: | cheap at twice the price Extremely inexpensive. on the cheap By inexpensive means; cheaply: traveled to Europe on the cheap. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From Middle English (god) chep, (good) price, purchase, bargain, from Old English cap, trade, from Latin caup , shopkeeper. | | OTHER FORMS: | cheap ly —ADVERB
cheapness —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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