Cheap Good Tʃiːp Prices Money Extra Examples Low

• cheap imports/flights
• their cheap prices have helped them pick up new customers.
• they're offering incredibly cheap fares to eastern europe.
• cycling is a cheap way to get around.

cheap

1. costing little money or less money than you expected
• SYNONYM inexpensive
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• cheap imports/flights
• Their cheap prices have helped them pick up new customers.
• They're offering incredibly cheap fares to Eastern Europe.
• Cycling is a cheap way to get around.
• A good education is not cheap.
• Electricity is relatively cheap in Ireland.
• The device isn't exactly cheap at £500.
• A falling dollar will boost the economy by making exports cheaper.
• a cheaper alternative/option
• Renewable energy is getting cheaper all the time.
• The cheapest rates are usually available online.
• immigrant workers, used as a source of cheap labour (= workers who are paid very little, especially unfairly)
• Game shows are cheap to produce.
• Why go by train when it's so cheap to hop on a plane?

Extra Examples

• The market has been flooded with cheap imports.
• The printer isn't exactly cheap at £200.
• The town is full of immigrant workers, used as a source of cheap labour.
• The watch was suspiciously cheap; it was probably a fake.
2. charging low prices
• OPPOSITE expensive
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/expensive
• a cheap restaurant/hotel
• a cheap taxi firm
• We found a cheap and cheerful cafe (= one that is simple and charges low prices but is pleasant).

Extra Examples

• It's a good restaurant, and incredibly cheap.
• Italy was a very cheap country to visit in those days.
3. low in price and quality
• cheap perfume/jewellery/shoes
• cheap plastic toys that break within seconds
• a cheap and nasty bottle of wine

Extra Examples

• cheap and nasty products with brand names you've never heard of
• We brought a few cheap and nasty bottles of wine home from holiday.
• The room was filled with the smell of cheap perfume.
• It was just a bottle of cheap perfume.
• The bag looks cheap and nasty.
• The glasses are plain without looking cheap.
4. unpleasant or unkind and rather obvious
• I was tired of his cheap jokes at my expense.
• a comedian who is always looking for cheap laughs
• to score a cheap political advantage
• He couldn't resist taking a cheap shot at his political opponent.
5. having a low status and therefore not deserving respect
• He's just a cheap crook.
• His treatment of her made her feel cheap (= ashamed, because she had lost her respect for herself).
6. not liking to spend money
• Don't be so cheap!

Extra Examples

• He's so cheap, he'd never fly to London in a million years.
• She was just too cheap to buy a real present.
• He was so generous he made the other guests look cheap.
7. so good or useful that the cost does not seem too much
• To buy all the recommended equipment is expensive, but as an investment for the future it is cheap at the price.
8. used to say that there is a situation in which it is not thought to be important if people somewhere die or are treated badly
9. spending less money than you usually need to spend to do something
• a guide to decorating your house on the cheap
• to acquire valuable works of art on the cheap
• The school managed to get a couple of computers on the cheap.

Word Origin

• late 15th cent.: from an obsolete phrase good cheap ‘a good bargain’, from Old English cēap ‘bargaining, trade’, based on Latin caupo ‘small trader, innkeeper’.