cheap

UK /t͡ʃiːp/ US /t͡ʃiːp/
adj 5noun 5verb 4adv 1

Definitions

adj

1

Low or reduced in price.

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.

2

Of poor quality.

3

Of little worth.

You grow cheap in every subject's eye.

4

Underhanded or unfair.

the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks

5

Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.

Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire.

noun

1

Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.

2

A market; marketplace.

3

Price.

4

A low price; a bargain.

The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.

5

Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.

verb

1

To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.

2

To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.

3

To buy; purchase.

4

To sell.

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