Crossword clues for cheapening
cheapening
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cheapen \Cheap"en\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cheapened; p. pr. & vb. n. Cheapening.] [OE. cheapien, chepen, to trade, buy, sell, AS. ce['a]pian; akin to D. koopen to buy, G. kaufen, Icel. kaupa, Goth. kaup[=o]n to trade. Cf. Chap to bargain.]
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To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
Pretend to cheapen goods, but nothing buy.
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[Cf. Cheap, a.] To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
--Pope.My proffered love has cheapened me.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of cheapen English)
Usage examples of "cheapening".
This trestle bridge plan of expediting the completion, and cheapening the construction, of new railways, wants more study, at home.
It undergoes spasmodic and irregular cheapening through new discoveries of gold, and at any time it may undergo very extensive and sudden and disastrous depreciation through the discovery of some way of transmuting less valuable elements.
The whole trend of a scientific mechanical civilisation is continually to replace labour by machinery and to increase it in its effectiveness by organisation, and so quite independently of any increase in population labour must either fall in value until it can compete against and check the cheapening process, or if that is prevented, as it will be in Utopia, by a minimum wage, come out of employment.
If bargains were to be interrupted by a little cheapening of the buyer, and some affectation of waiting for a better market in the seller, Her Majesty might as well order her custom-houses to be closed at once, and look to other sources for revenue.
In Great Britain in the eighteenth century coal coke began to be used for metallurgical purposes, leading to a considerable cheapening of iron and to the possibility of casting and using it in larger pieces than had been possible before, when it had been smelted with wood charcoal.
It was in just such company, the fine flower and complete expression of the state she aspired to, that the differences came out with special poignancy, her grace cheapening the other women's smartness as her finely-discriminated silences made their chatter dull.
She felt not only that Lily was cheapening herself by making use of an intimacy she would never have cultivated from choice, but that, in drifting back now to her former manner of life, she was forfeiting her last chance of ever escaping from it.
He wouldn't take up Marchal's process for fear cheapening delium would lower his profits.
For one thing, I didn't want to be "typed" and wind up cheapening the concept or the original book(s) by ripping off Well World No.
Brady had popularized them but thought they were cheapening the art of photography.