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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Relatively low in cost; inexpensive or comparatively inexpensive.
  2. adj. Charging low prices: a cheap restaurant.
  3. adj. Obtainable at a low rate of interest. Used especially of money.
  4. adj. Devalued, as in buying power: cheap dollars.
  5. adj. Achieved with little effort: a cheap victory; cheap laughs.
  6. adj. Of or considered of small value: in wartime, when life was cheap.
  7. adj. Of poor quality; inferior: a cheap toy.
  8. adj. Worthy of no respect; vulgar or contemptible: a cheap gangster.
  9. adj. Stingy; miserly.
  10. adv. Inexpensively: got the new car cheap.
  11. idiom. cheap at twice the price Extremely inexpensive.
  12. idiom. on the cheap By inexpensive means; cheaply: traveled to Europe on the cheap.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
  2. To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
  3. To buy; purchase.
  4. To sell.
  5. n. Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
  6. n. A market; a market-place: in this sense extant in several place-names, as Cheapside and Eastcheap in London, Chepstow, etc.
  7. n. Price.
  8. n. A low price; a bargain: especially in the phrases good cheap and great cheap (see below).
  9. n. Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
  10. n. In abundant supply; at a low price; cheap: used adjectively or adverbially. [Now simply cheap. See cheap, a.]
  11. n. literally, great or large market-trade, An abundant supply; cheapness.
  12. n. In abundant supply; at a low price; cheap.
  13. Rated at a low price or cost; purchasable or obtainable at a low price or cost, either as compared with the usual price or cost, or with the real value, or, more vaguely, with the price of other things; relatively inexpensive.
  14. Of small intrinsic value or esteem; common; commonplace; mean; costing little effort to obtain, practise, influence, etc.: as, to make one's self cheap.
  15. Getting off cheaply, or without losing much (or so much as one deserves): as, to be cheap o′ t.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Low and/or reduced in price.
  2. adj. Of poor quality.
  3. adj. Of little worth.
  4. adj. underhand; dubious.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.
  2. adj. Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.
  3. adj. Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
  4. adv. Cheaply.
  5. v. To buy; to bargain.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. of very poor quality; flimsy.
  2. adj. tastelessly showy
  3. adj. relatively low in price or charging low prices
  4. adj. embarrassingly stingy

Etymologies

  1. From Middle English (god) chep, (good) price, purchase, bargain, from Old English cēap, trade, from Latin caupō, shopkeeper.

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