Cheap Good Tʃiːp Money Low Fares Computers Printer

• cheap fares
• personal computers are cheap and getting cheaper.
• cycling is a cheap way to get around.
• the printer isn't exactly cheap at £200.

cheap

1. costing little money or less money than you expected
• synonym inexpensive
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/inexpensive
• cheap fares
• Personal computers are cheap and getting cheaper.
• Cycling is a cheap way to get around.
• The printer isn't exactly cheap at £200.
• immigrant workers, used as a source of cheap labour (= workers who are paid very little, especially unfairly)
• A good education is not cheap.
• Calls cost 36p a minute cheap rate.
• a bottle of cheap perfume
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).
3. low in price and quality
• cheap perfume/jewellery/shoes
• a cheap and nasty bottle of wine
4. unpleasant or unkind and rather obvious
• See related entries: Describing unpleasant traits
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/describing_unpleasant_traits/cheap_1
• 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
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!
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

Extra Examples

• It’s a good restaurant, and incredibly cheap.
• Shoes like that don’t come cheap.
• The bag looks cheap and nasty.
• The glasses are plain without looking cheap.
• The school managed to get a couple of computers on the cheap.
• They’re selling fabrics cheap this week.
• a brand new radio going cheap
• A quality pair of Italian shoes doesn’t come cheap.
• Don’t be so cheap!
• He was so generous he made the other guests look cheap.
• He’s just trying to score a cheap political advantage.
• He’s so cheap, he’d never fly to London in a million years.
• His treatment of her made her feel cheap.
• I was tired of her cheap jokes at my expense.
• It was just a bottle of cheap perfume.
• Italy was a very cheap country to visit in those days.
• She was just too cheap to buy a real present.
• The market has been flooded with cheap imports.
• The printer isn’t exactly cheap at £200.
• The room was filled with the smell of cheap perfume.
• The skirt was dirt cheap.
• The town is full of immigrant workers, used as a source of cheap labour.
• They’re offering incredibly cheap fares to Eastern Europe.
• They’ve got brand new CD players going cheap.
• We brought a few cheap and nasty bottles of wine home from holiday.
• We found a cheap and cheerful cafe.
• a cheap floozy/tart/whore
• The watch was suspiciously cheap; it was probably a fake.
• cheap and nasty products with brand names you’ve never heard of

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’.