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Cheapness

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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
Noun1.Cheapnesscheapness - a price below the standard price    
bargain rate, cut price, cut rate
inexpensiveness - the quality of being affordable
2.cheapness - tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
sleaze, tat, tackiness
tastelessness - inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste


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The extension of our own commerce in our own vessels cannot give pleasure to any nations who possess territories on or near this continent, because the cheapness and excellence of our productions, added to the circumstance of vicinity, and the enterprise and address of our merchants and navigators, will give us a greater share in the advantages which those territories afford, than consists with the wishes or policy of their respective sovereigns.
Federalist Papers Authored by John Jay by Jay, John View in context
The vast number and the cheapness of the horses in this country makes every one a cavalier.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
Female field-labour was seldom offered now, and its cheapness made it profitable for tasks which women could perform as readily as men.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman by Hardy, Thomas View in context
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