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low-cost

low-cost \low-cost\ adj. inexpensive; cheap. Opposite of expensive.

Syn: inexpensive, low-priced.

Wiktionary
low-cost

a. low in price. alt. low in price.

WordNet
low-cost

adj. that you have the financial means for; "low-cost housing" [syn: low-priced, affordable]

Usage examples of "low-cost".

I had become the spokesman for HealthExtras, a company based in Maryland that offers low-cost supplemental insurance to cover nonmedical expenses in the event of a catastrophic illness or disability.

Soviet Union created a need for exotic languages, the proliferation of low-cost, complex encryption systems and fast computers has forced NSA to search for more mathematicians whom they can convert to codebreakers.

If Serge's plans came to fruition, shoppers would eventually flock to the downtown, lured by parking-fee rebates, street performers, bicycle paths, mini-playgrounds, and low-cost supervised day care.

With modern power tools as cheap as they are, with small machines as well, with biological fuel cells to furnish low-cost energy, with the food-growing techniques developed for extraterrestrial bases -- a family could become self-sufficient.

With modern power tools as cheap as they are, with small machines as well, with biological fuel cells to furnish low-cost energy, with the food-growing techniques developed for extraterrestrial bases—.

Not the parlor magic stuff of superconductivity, but a real low-cost system that would negate mass and resistance.

The sporting goods section of Sears, which normally sold tons ofTed Williams baseball gear this month, was doing most of its dollar volume in low-cost .

There was a low-cost housing project being constructed in Dallas and a block of condominiums in Los Angeles.

The military-grade systems were commensurately more expensive, and their design lifetimes were substantially shorter, all of which was highly undesirable from the viewpoint of designing a durable, low-maintenance, low-cost freight-hauling vessel.

At twenty-nine, he'd been convicted of mail fraud, selling low-cost life insurance policies through the mail to elderly people.

They wanted to overthrow President Avispa's honest, low-cost government, so they could loot the public treasury, tax the citizens to bankruptcy for a year or two, then skip to Paris and the fleshpots of Europe for a life of luxury on the proceeds.