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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cut-price
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
deal
▪ He will be paid around £3million - the same wage he was offered in a cut-price deal by Renault-Williams.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Fruit is fairly inexpensive in Japan because they buy cut-price oranges and apples from South Africa.
▪ Tottenham Court Road is the best place for cut-price stereo equipment.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By day, a long street in the Nipponbashi area is lined with cut-price electronics stores.
▪ For example, there is the restricted access to cut-price supermarket shopping that many disabled older people suffer from.
▪ Or they can pick up cut-price plant and equipment, or computer systems.
▪ Oxford felt like a transatlantic liner in the age of bucket shops and cut-price charters.
▪ Rather than setting up their own discount arm, food retailers could simply sell cut-price brands in their superstores.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cut-price

cut-price \cut-price\ adj. prenom. same as cut-rate. [Chiefly British]

Syn: cut-rate(prenominal).

Wiktionary
cut-price

a. That is offered for sale at less than the normal price

WordNet
cut-price

adj. costing less than standard price; "buying bargain-priced clothes for the children"; "cut-rate goods" [syn: bargain-priced, cut-rate]

Usage examples of "cut-price".

I think it was something to do with working her way around the Solar System on a cut-price non-U grand tour: laboring as a courtesy masseuse in Japan and a topiarist on Ceres while saving up the price of her next interplanetary jaunt.

Copley, who, by an altogether exceptional accident, was left working overtime upon a rush series of cut-price advertisements for Jamboree Jellies.

Sinc6 the collapse of cut-price car insurance firms, I'd read somewhere, privately run insurance schemes had to show a minimum backing of fifty thousand pounds before the Board of Trade would give them permission to exist.

In a pilot film, a cut-price exorcist was praying for a television series for himself.

Such stately stone mansions, such restaurants and hotels and motels – and just across the Nevada border in Stateline, such a neon array of casinos, particularly the glittering Wheel of Fortune with its huge plush lounge boasting long-legged dance troupes and its cut-price all-day breakfasts of omelettes, strawberries and waffles, and its generous credit line.