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cheaply

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cheap  (chp)
adj. cheap·er, cheap·est
1.
a. Relatively low in cost; inexpensive or comparatively inexpensive.
b. Charging low prices: a cheap restaurant.
2.
a. 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.
adv. 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.

[From Middle English (god) chep, (good) price, purchase, bargain, from Old English cap, trade, from Latin caup, shopkeeper.]

cheaply adv.
cheapness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.cheaply - in a stingy manner; "their rich uncle treated them rather chintzily"
2.cheaply - in a cheap manner; "a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar"
expensively - in an expensive manner; "an expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her"
3.cheaply - with little expenditure of money; "I bought this car very cheaply"
Translations
cheaply [ˈtʃiːplɪ] ADV [buy, sell] → barato, a bajo precio; [produce goods] → a bajo precio; [live, eat, decorate, furnish] → con poco dinero
two can live as cheaply as onedos pueden vivir por el mismo dinero que uno
cheaply [ˈtʃiːpli] advà bon marché, à bon compte
cheaply
adv buy, sell, furnish, decoratebillig; make, produce, eat, livegünstig
cheaply [ˈtʃiːplɪ] adva buon prezzo, a buon mercato


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The Trust could put milk upon the market more cheaply than we.
I am weary of my cheaply won success in the pulpit.
He knew he must hire laborers as cheaply as possible; but to hire men under bond, paying them in advance at less than the current rate of wages, was what he must not do, even though it was very profitable.
 
 
 
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