Cheap

/ˈt͡ʃiːp/ · adjective

Meaning

Low or reduced in price..

Definitions by Sense

1. Low or reduced in price.
2. Of poor quality.
3. Of little worth.
4. (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhanded or unfair.
5. (informal, chiefly derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
6. (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
7. (computing) Taking little of system time or resources.
8. (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.

Example Sentences

Where there are many sellers and few purchases, land will be cheap.

One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

Datacasting bypasses the wired, terrestrial Internet and is a cheaper way to distribute software than pressing and mailing CDs.

The cheapest antiager around: a good moisturizer.

[Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.

McDonald’s has been vocal about adding more chicken to its menu, which is generally cheaper than beef.

You grow cheap in every subject's eye.

the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks

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Word Forms

• cheaper
• cheapest
• chap
• chop
• ch3ap
• cheaps
• cheaping
• cheaped
• more cheap
• most cheap

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