cheaply
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cheap
(chēp)adj. cheap·er, cheap·est
1.
a. Relatively low in cost; inexpensive or comparatively inexpensive.
b. Charging low prices: a cheap restaurant.
2.
a. Obtainable at a low rate of interest. Used especially of money.
b. Devalued, as in buying power: cheap dollars.
3. Achieved with little effort: a cheap victory; cheap laughs.
4. Of or considered of small value: in wartime, when life was cheap.
5. Of poor quality; inferior: a cheap toy.
6. Worthy of no respect; vulgar or contemptible: a cheap gangster.
7. Stingy; miserly.
adv. cheaper, cheapest
Idioms: Inexpensively: got the new car cheap.
cheap at twice the price
Extremely inexpensive.
on the cheap
By inexpensive means; cheaply: traveled to Europe on the cheap.
[From Middle English (god) chep, (good) price, purchase, bargain, from Old English cēap, trade, from Latin caupō, shopkeeper.]
cheap′ly adv.
cheap′ness n.
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cheap
– cheaply1. 'cheap' as an adjective
Cheap goods or services cost less than other goods or services of the same type.
...cheap red wine.
...cheap plastic buckets.
A solid fuel cooker is cheap to run.
2. 'cheap' as an adverb
In conversation, cheap can also be an adverb, but only with verbs which refer to the buying, selling, or hiring of things.
I thought you got it very cheap.
You can hire boots pretty cheap.
3. 'cheaply'
With other verbs, the adverb you use is cheaply.
You can play golf comparatively cheaply.
In fact you can travel just as cheaply by British Airways.
4. 'low'
You do not say that things such as wages, costs, or payments are 'cheap'. You say that they are low.
If your family has a low income, you can apply for a student grant.
...tasty meals at a fairly low cost.
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| Adv. | 1. | cheaply - in a stingy manner; "their rich uncle treated them rather chintzily" |
| 2. | cheaply - in a cheap manner; "a cheaply dressed woman approached him in the bar" expensively - in an expensive manner; "an expensively dressed little man turned a corner and approached her" | |
| 3. | cheaply - with little expenditure of money; "I bought this car very cheaply" |
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cheaply
[ˈtʃiːplɪ] ADV [buy, sell] → barato, a bajo precio; [produce goods] → a bajo precio; [live, eat, decorate, furnish] → con poco dinerotwo can live as cheaply as one → dos pueden vivir por el mismo dinero que uno
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cheap
(tʃiːp) adjective1. low in price. Eggs are cheap just now.
2. of poor quality; vulgar; contemptible. cheap jewellery; a cheap trick.
ˈcheaply adverbˈcheapness noun
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