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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
low-end
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ low-end electronics
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Due out this year are a series of inexpensive, low-end notebook machines with high-end features.
▪ Even low-end units will keep you going for anywhere between 5 minutes and a half-hour.
▪ It's intended for low-end machines and multiprocessors.
▪ Other gossip has Sun's low-end Tsunami box - due imminently - cast as Sunrgy.
▪ Rochester will continue to manufacture disk substrates and design the low-end disk drives.
▪ Sun is also developing multiple iterations of Tsunami, its low-end low-cost high-volume single-chip MicroSparc engine.
▪ The company expects the early versions of the chip will go into low-end desktop computers primarily sold outside the United States.
▪ Years ago, adults used expensive, high-powered computers at work and bought a low-end machine for the kids.
Wiktionary
low-end

a. Cheap or inexpensive; low-quality.

Usage examples of "low-end".

Top talk radio audiences by size (weekly cume low-end estimates 12-plus in millions rounded off to the nearest .

Everything except the Sony looked low-end and cheesy, as if the local discount store had run a clearance sale: COMPLETE BACHELOR PAD -- ON SALE NOW.

Not that I have many low-end pieces, mind you, and none of them is junk.

They may be writing romances or Ace doubles for $500, they may be publishing in literary magazines with a circulation in double digits or in magazines considered low-end even for genre fiction, but when you find their work, when you read it, you just know.

The single room held a ratty sleep chair Proctor hadn't bothered to make up for the day, a skinny table that held a low-end tele-link/computer combo, a pole lamp with a torn shade, and a three-drawer wall chest.

With the most common spelling of the name, Brittany, at number eighteen among high-end families and number five among low-end families, it is surely approaching its pull date.

It was a cruel, cold world out there, a world singularly lacking in first-chair jobs in fine symphony orchestras and prestigious traveling ensembles, recording contracts, solo tours, and praise-and full of cruel critics and low-end positions teaching in schools or playing in little city orchestras under conductors who themselves had failed to make the cut for a high-end professional musical career.

It was a cruel, cold world out there, a world singularly lacking in first-chair jobs in fine symphony orchestras and prestigious traveling ensembles, recording contracts, solo tours, and praiseand full of cruel critics and low-end positions teaching in schools or playing in little city orchestras under conductors who themselves had failed to make the cut for a high-end professional musical career.

The ones that remained open were discount clothing places, church thrift shops, video arcades, and other low-end enterprises.