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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cheap
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cheap alternative
▪ A take-away is a cheap alternative to eating out.
a cheap option
▪ We urgently need to find a cheaper option than oil or gas.
a cheap thrilldisapproving (= excitement that you can get easily or without much effort)
▪ Young people go to the big city in search of cheap thrills.
an expensive/cheap restaurant
▪ He took her out to an expensive restaurant.
cheap and nasty
▪ a market stall selling cheap and nasty watches
cheap flights
▪ Environmental groups are calling for an end to cheap flights.
cheap imports
▪ Farmers are complaining about cheap imports flooding the market.
cheap labour (=workers who have low wages)
▪ Women and children were used as cheap labour.
cheap (=with a low interest rate)
▪ Homebuyers are eager to take advantage of the cheap mortgages on offer.
cheap/expensive
▪ He bought her a bottle of expensive French perfume.
dirt cheap
▪ Such cheap goods obviously rely on dirt cheap labor.
get...cheap
▪ It’s a lovely coat, and I managed to get it cheap in the sales.
were going cheap (=were being sold at a low price)
▪ He bought me some CDs which were going cheap.
work out expensive/cheap etc (=be expensive or cheap)
▪ If we go by taxi, it’s going to work out very expensive.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
much
▪ Use the public booths in town where it's much cheaper.
▪ Also I didn't have much money, and barn owls are much cheaper than a lot of birds of prey.
▪ It made it so much cheaper, worthless even.
▪ I tried to get them repaired, but was told that it would be much cheaper to buy replacements.
▪ It would be much cheaper, he added, than promoting policies to create new industries in the region.
▪ It is much cheaper and easier to treat residents as passive and incapable.
▪ Strained fences of up to ten strands of high-tensile steel wire can be much cheaper for very long, straight runs.
▪ You can also use them for blocking gaps between skirting boards and floor - it's much cheaper than wood beading.
relatively
▪ Even if wages are relatively cheap, electricity is not.
▪ We're talking relatively cheap mega-acres of land and the use of mass-production techniques.
▪ However, the very fact that they are mass-produced and relatively cheap means that they are too frequently seen.
▪ Local newspapers are widely read and relatively cheap to advertise in.
▪ The equipment is relatively cheap and simple to use.
▪ It's relatively cheap and currently much is wasted by flare-off at extraction.
▪ As yet the land is still relatively cheap.
▪ The premium is again relatively cheap, depending on the extent of cover, and varies from about £3 to £10.
so
▪ It's just that I feel so cheap.
▪ It was so cheap in exertion, so productive in humiliation.
▪ In microchip territory, silicon has always been king because it remains so cheap and easy to use.
▪ They were so cheap that, even with the cost of smuggling them west, Kurzlinger could make a huge profit.
▪ How can life be so cheap?
▪ I have not had a cup of tea since I came here, as the coffee is so cheap and good.
▪ Getting laid has never been so cheap in all history.
very
▪ As a result, pencils were easy to make and very cheap to produce.
▪ Our stuff was incredibly ugly, shot on video and very cheap.
▪ You see, it starts off very cheap.
▪ The whole exercise is very cheap.
▪ It is a large subject, much in demand, and is very cheap to teach.
▪ In fact garden centre granite would do, and is very cheap.
▪ In terms of effectiveness for points costs volley guns are very cheap, so shed no tears if you lose one.
■ NOUN
alternative
▪ It's touted as the cheaper alternative to Photoshop, and is snapping at the heels of the industry benchmark.
▪ Arbitration has traditionally been seen as a cheaper alternative to lawsuits because legal costs are lower.
▪ The catsuit in the picture above costs a cool £1,760, but it isn't impossible to find cheaper alternatives.
▪ Home entertainment is the cheap alternative, right?
▪ Pre-coating clean brander plates with a proprietary release water soluble barrier film is a cheaper alternative.
▪ A cheaper alternative is to take your own small rucksack.
▪ The clinical grading structure is such that enrolled nurses should never now be considered as a cheaper alternative.
▪ Can we develop simple and cheap alternatives to over-exploitation?
food
▪ But we have to accept the blame ourselves, because we have institutionalised the notion of cheap food.
▪ The drive for cheap food has been behind every food catastrophe of the past decade.
▪ But only the very cheapest food.
▪ So why is cheap food given as the excuse for the farming crisis?
▪ And if that is so, then we must consider the question: who pays for our cheap food?
▪ Ordinary citizens tolerated corruption when times were good and when the government rewarded them with cheap food, services and petrol.
▪ And in this vacuum of ignorance, terrible practices have been tolerated because they delivered the promise of cheap food.
▪ To these may be added cheap food and tokens of improvement in our staple trade.
import
▪ The final blow for many firms was the government's abolition of import duties which resulted in a flood of cheap imports.
▪ Farmers wary of increased competition from cheap imports also urged a ban.
▪ Other leading drug wholesalers in Britain also surreptitiously buy cheap imports using specially-established subsidiary companies.
▪ Without it, the gain is smaller and confined to the consumption benefit of cheaper imports.
▪ It means cheaper imports, more pesetas for the pound, a stronger feelgood factor.
▪ The developing countries are pressed to eliminate trade barriers, which can lead to local producers being undermined by cheaper imports.
▪ Farmers complain about no-one buying their wine and cheap imports flooding the markets.
labor
▪ Process technology moves around the globe to find the cheapest labor and the friendliest markets.
▪ He proposes unspecified tariffs on imports from Third-World nations that depend on cheap labor.
▪ The cheap labor was short-lived, however.
labour
▪ An economist would say this is the market working: cheaper labour means more jobs.
▪ This means the price of its cheap labour must be maintained.
▪ One response to this decline in the dynamism of Fordism was the geographical decentralization of production in search of cheaper labour.
▪ It was a form of cheap labour.
▪ It's not another source of free or cheap labour.
▪ It provided employers with a cheap labour force.
▪ A trend had already been set in textiles, where the comparative advantage of cheap labour was becoming important.
option
▪ Useful vegetarian cafe to know about, as the area is short on cheap options.
▪ He has endorsed the cheaper option.
▪ One energy mix simply chose the cheapest options for supplying energy - using entirely coal, oil and natural gas.
▪ How much does it cost an employer to provide childcare facilities and what is the cheapest option?
▪ Each has its advantages and disadvantages. internal modems are the cheapest option.
▪ Carrying spare batteries could be a cheaper option to fast charging and all chargers rely on a power point anyway.
▪ Even with an individual membership costing £750, it's not the cheapest option around.
▪ If not, which will be the cheapest option from the three remaining methods?
price
▪ Now the trick of course is to buy at the cheapest price or sell at the most expensive.
▪ Eventually their designs were appropriated for industrial production, which could be sold at cheaper prices.
▪ The cheapest price he was offered was £730 third party fire and theft.
▪ Selling short involves borrowing stock and then selling it, hoping to replace the shares at a cheaper price later.
▪ Andy Parkes tells us how to get large fish at cheaper prices by growing them on.
▪ And a cheap price it was, too, considering your box-office potential in the years ahead.
▪ The Nisa store visited in Newcastle had the cheapest prices overall.
▪ In many cases those imports are available at a cheaper price than within the Community.
rate
▪ It would then switch itself on at a time when the electricity company has agreed it will get the cheapest rate.
▪ Moreover, getting the cheapest rate depends on where you call, and, more importantly, when.
▪ Calls cost 36p a minute, cheap rate, and 48p at all other times.
▪ Dall was effectively trading money; he sought to borrow each day at the cheapest rates and lend at the highest.
▪ Calls are charged at 36p per min cheap rate, 48p per min at all other times.
▪ It enabled me to stay in my home of 30 years rather than move to a property with cheaper rates.
▪ Or, asking your employer if you can change your hours of work so that you can take advantage of cheap rate travel.
shot
▪ It was a cheap shot but an effective one.
▪ Green Bay players complained that the Cowboys are taught to apply cheap shots.
▪ He deserves better than to be criticised by gay activists with such a cheap shot.
▪ Take cheap shots and distort facts in order to get ahead?
▪ There is increased range flexibility, it is cheaper shot for shot and it leaves a much more saleable end-product.
▪ Or, analysts say, it could be a cheap shot by an employee at an Apple competitor.
thrill
▪ Do yu tell yu friends how yu get yu cheap thrills?
▪ Someday, even adolescent males may tire of the cheap thrills it provides, but that day has yet to come.
▪ Bet you get a cheap thrill out of that sort of thing, don't you?
▪ I had thrown away my chances in life, pawned them off for a few cheap thrills.
▪ The insanity of one unites the sane majority, while the ghoul and the cynic get another cheap thrill.
way
▪ It is the simplest and cheapest way of injecting since there is generally a slurry tanker already on the farm.
▪ Cleaning up road dust is one of the cheapest ways to reduce the pollutant.
▪ What i-the cheapest way of lowering the gearing?
▪ Though they had hoped for a cheap way to dominate Tonkin, the momentum of Rivieres operation propelled them forward.
▪ That is the cheapest way of giving some co-ordination and colour to your home.
▪ Foreign aid was often defended as a cheap way to buy anti-Communist troops.
▪ Microlights have at last achieved what they set out to be: a largely reliable and relatively cheap way to fly.
▪ But there is a growing consensus that there is no quick, painless or cheap way out of the morass.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
talk about lazy/cheap/hungry etc
talk is cheap
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Cheaper production facilities have helped boost profits.
▪ a cheap leather jacket
▪ Hungry-looking men in cheap suits hung around the streets all day.
▪ I bought the cheapest computer I could find.
▪ It's cheaper to phone after six o'clock.
▪ My flight to Reno was really cheap.
▪ My shoes were really cheap - they only cost $15.
▪ Oh look -- a present from Rob. I bet it's another bottle of cheap perfume.
▪ The cheapest way to get to Chicago is to take the bus.
▪ The girls wore bright frilly dresses and were drenched in cheap perfume.
▪ The hotel room was very small, with cheap furniture and a bumpy bed.
▪ The interior of the car is all plastic and has a cheap look about it.
▪ The outlet mall is a lot cheaper than stores downtown.
▪ The room was depressing, with dim light and cheap furniture.
▪ The tourist shops were full of cheap souvenirs.
▪ Uncle Matt was really cheap - he used to stay with us for weeks, and he never paid for anything.
▪ Who brought the nasty cheap beer?
▪ Wooden houses are relatively cheap to build.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A smart suit with cheap uncomfortable shoes generally reveals a man posing above his station.
▪ Green Bay players complained that the Cowboys are taught to apply cheap shots.
▪ Richard Branson's Virgin Records, for instance, grew and diversified, including a successful foray into cheap transatlantic flights.
▪ The simplest and cheapest way of photographing a slide or peel is to use it as a photographic negative.
▪ Then they both walked into an alley between a small pentecostal church and a rat-eaten shack advertising cheap tires.
▪ This makes women cheaper to dismiss and makes them more vulnerable to redundancy.
II.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
come
▪ It won't come cheap, though.
▪ Life came cheap in the world of 1945.
▪ Sony products may not come cheap, but they are manufactured to the highest standards of quality.
▪ This kind of laptop doesn't come cheap.
▪ A private education hardly comes cheap: students have to pay up to $ 15,000.
▪ This neck-snapping performance does not come cheap.
▪ None of this comes cheap, and bold moves will be required.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Old houses can sometimes be bought cheap and fixed up.
▪ That dress makes her look real cheap.
▪ You can buy electronic diaries fairly cheaply nowadays.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And the Navy wants the vessel cheap -- by Pentagon standards at least.
▪ It won't come cheap, though.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheap

Cheap \Cheap\, v. i. To buy; to bargain. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.

Cheap

Cheap \Cheap\, adv. Cheaply.
--Milton.

Cheap

Cheap \Cheap\, a. [Abbrev. fr. ``good cheap'': a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon march['e], [`a] bon march['e]. See Cheap, n., Cheapen.]

  1. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.

    Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be cheap.
    --Locke.

  2. Of comparatively small value; common; mean.

    You grow cheap in every subject's eye.
    --Dryden.

    Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]

Cheap

Cheap \Cheap\ (ch[=e]p), n. [AS. ce['a]p bargain, sale, price; akin to D. koop purchase, G. kauf, Icel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.] A bargain; a purchase; cheapness. [Obs.]

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

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cheap

"low in price, that may be bought at small cost," c.1500, ultimately from Old English noun ceap "traffic, a purchase," from ceapian (v.) "trade," probably from an early Germanic borrowing from Latin caupo "petty tradesman, huckster" (see chapman).\n

\nThe sense evolution is from the noun meaning "a barter, a purchase" to "a purchase as rated by the buyer," hence adjectival meaning "inexpensive," the main modern sense, via Middle English phrases such as god chep "favorable bargain" (12c., a translation of French a bon marché).\n

\nSense of "lightly esteemed, common" is from 1590s (compare similar evolution of Latin vilis). The meaning "low in price" was represented in Old English by undeor, literally "un-dear" (but deop ceap, literally "deep cheap," meant "high price").\n

\nThe word also was used in Old English for "market" (as in ceapdæg "market day"), a sense surviving in place names Cheapside, East Cheap, etc. Related: Cheaply. Expression on the cheap is first attested 1888. Cheap shot originally was U.S. football jargon for a head-on tackle; extended sense "unfair hit" in politics, etc. is by 1970. German billig "cheap" is from Middle Low German billik, originally "fair, just," with a sense evolution via billiger preis "fair price," etc.

Wiktionary
cheap

  1. low and/or reduced in price. adv. Cheaply. n. 1 trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering. 2 A market; marketplace. 3 price. 4 A low price; a bargain. 5 cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply. v

  2. 1 (context intransitive obsolete English) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods. 2 (context transitive obsolete English) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen. 3 (context transitive obsolete English) To buy; purchase. 4 (context transitive obsolete English) To sell.

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WordNet
cheap

  1. adj. relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants" [syn: inexpensive] [ant: expensive]

  2. tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]

  3. of very poor quality [syn: bum, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny]

  4. embarrassingly stingy [syn: chinchy, chintzy]

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Wikipedia
Cheap

Cheap may refer to:

  • A very low cost or expense
  • Cheap (ward), London, UK
  • Flatwoods, Kentucky, previously known as Cheap
  • Cheap (album), debut album from Seasick Steve
Cheap (album)

Cheap is the debut album from Seasick Steve. It consists of songs by him and his Swedish/Norwegian band The Level Devils, and also two stories from his life as a hobo.

The Level Devils consisted at this time of Kai Christoffersen (NOR) playing the drums and Jo Husmo (SWE) bass. Dan Magnusson (SWE) subsequently took over drumming duties.

Cheap (ward)

Cheap is a small ward in the City of London. It stretches west to east from King Edward Street, the border with Farringdon Within ward, to Old Jewry, which adjoins Walbrook; and north to south from Gresham Street, the border with Aldersgate and Bassishaw wards, to Cheapside, the boundary with Cordwainer and Bread Street wards. The name Cheap derives from the Old English word "chep" for " market".

The following roads run north to south across the ward: St. Martin's Le Grand, Foster Lane, Gutter Lane, Wood Street, Milk Street, King Street, and Ironmonger Lane. Within its boundaries are two Anglican churches: St Vedast Foster Lane and St Lawrence Jewry; a third church, St Mildred, Poultry, was demolished in 1872. Several Livery Halls are located in Cheap, including those of the Mercers', Goldsmiths', Wax Chanders' and Saddlers' Companies.

A small part of the Guildhall lies within the ward's boundaries: the main entrance and main hall itself; the remainder is in Bassishaw. Also within Cheap are the Lord Mayor's and City of London Court and the southern end of Basinghall Street.

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Usage examples of "cheap".

Now this cheaping irked Ralph sorely, as was like to be, whereas, as hath been told, he came from a land where were no thralls, none but vavassors and good yeomen: yet he abode till all was done, hansel paid, and the thralls led off by their new masters.

This is very cheap, and it is a great abridgment of the sacred right of self-government to hang men for engaging in this profitable trade.

Next day the Baron technically did give Granny Aching gold, but it was only the gold-coloured foil on an ounce of Jolly Sailor, the cheap and horrible pipe tobacco that was the only one Granny Aching would ever smoke.

He tried again and again to get Scott to talk about his idea for utilizing some of the Overhulse acreage to build clean but cheap housing.

Meg smelled of shampoo and cheap cosmetics and childhood, and Addle was overwhelmed by the shape and feel of a girl roughly the same age asChloe.

The teams are all looking at variants on a simple, cheap technique that involves putting antigen genes into harmless bacteria that will double as delivery vehicles and adjuvants, then freeze-drying them into spores that can survive tropical heat without refrigeration.

From the papers, Amy learned that the Pimpernel had spirited Papa out of prison disguised as a cask of cheap red wine.

It cost IBM dearly when other people started making cheaper boxes to run those same apps and Op systems.

They say aquaculture produces cheaper food, provides employment and pours money into the economy.

Now this simple attitude entails a number of dangerous consequences: first, an inclination to seek out some cheap form of archaism or some imaginary past forms of happiness that people did not, in fact, have at all.

The Argol answers that she has already done so without effect, and begins to relieve her mind about cheap German enamels for collar-bearings.

A cheaper method, that of cramming victims into trucks and killing them with engine exhaust, was judged unsatisfactory because not enough victims could be asphyxiated at one time.

He kept the secrets of the distillery close to the vest, but Axel was soon forgiven this lack of generosity because he sold his products cheap, as he was more interested in company and discussion than he was in profits.

Their imitation gold bangles and necklaces, brooches and rings of cheap rubies, their indispensable high-heeled shoes, glittered under the lights.

Because they were cheap, she said up scraping plates, and later, in the pall fallen over the room, the dark casements and the cold hearth, the only movement a fugitive couple kissing on the silent screen and the unascribed bleat of digestive juices you know what I never understand here?