Pronunciation Noun
cheap
- (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
- (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
- Price.
- (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene iii]:
- The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
- Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
cheap (comparative cheaper, superlative cheapest)
- Low and/or reduced in price.
- 1691, John Locke, Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money
- Where there are many sellers and few purchases, land will be cheap.
- 1691, John Locke, Some Considerations of the Consequences of the Lowering of Interest and the Raising the Value of Money
- Of poor quality.
- Of little worth.
- You grow cheap in every subject's eye.
- (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
- the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks
- (informal, chiefly, derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
- Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire.
- (finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
- The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.
- (low/reduced in price) bargain, inexpensive, frugal, no-frills, priced-off
- (of poor quality) flimsy
- (low or reduced in price) dear, expensive, high-priced, pricey
- (of low value) precious, valuable
- (financial markets) rich
- chapman
- cheap and cheerful
- cheap as chips
- cheap drunk
- cheapen
- cheapjack
- cheaply
- cheapness
- cheap shot
- cheapskate
- cheapstead
- dirt cheap
- el cheapo
- on the cheap
- talk is cheap
- hold cheap
- French: bon marché, pas cher, peu cher, économique
- German: billig, preiswert, preisgünstig
- Italian: economico, a buon mercato
- Portuguese: barato (low); barateado (reduced)
- Russian: дешёвый
- Spanish: barato, económico
- French: (colloquial) à deux balles, au rabais
- German: billig
- Italian: scadente
- Portuguese: barato
- Russian: низкопро́бный
- Spanish: barato, corriente
cheap (cheaps, present participle cheaping; past and past participle cheaped)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
- (transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
- (transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
- (transitive, obsolete) To sell.
cheap
- Cheaply.
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