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cheap
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /t??ip/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ch?p, IPA(key): /t??i?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
- Homophone: cheep
Alternative forms
- chap, chop (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English cheep, chepe/chepen, chep, cheap/cheapien, chapien, from Old English c?ap (“cattle, purchase, sale”), ??apian (“to bargain, chaffer, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup (“trade, purchase”), *kaup?n (“to buy, trade”), from Proto-Germanic *kaup?n?, *kaupijan? (“to buy, trade”), *kaupô (“inn-keeper, merchant”), from Latin caup? (“tradesman, innkeeper”). See also chapman.
Noun
cheap (countable and uncountable, plural cheaps)
- (obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
- (obsolete) A market; marketplace.
- Price.
- (obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
- Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Adjective
cheap (comparative cheaper, superlative cheapest)
- Low and/or reduced in price.
- Where there are many sellers and few purchases, land will be cheap.
- Of poor quality.
- Of little worth.
- (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.
- (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.
Synonyms
- (low/reduced in price): bargain, inexpensive, frugal, no-frills, priced-off
- (of poor quality): flimsy
Antonyms
- (low or reduced in price): dear, expensive, high-priced, pricey
- (of low value): precious, valuable
- (financial markets): rich
Related terms
See also
- Appendix:Fighting Game Terms
Translations
Verb
cheap (third-person singular simple present cheaps, present participle cheaping, simple 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.
Derived terms
- cheap out
Usage notes
Use of cheap as a verb has been surpassed by cheapen.
Adverb
cheap (comparative more cheap, superlative most cheap)
- Cheaply.
- March 24 1658, John Milton, letter to Emeric Bigot
- I need not request you to purchase them as cheap as possible
- March 24 1658, John Milton, letter to Emeric Bigot
Anagrams
- Peach, Pecha, chape, chapé, peach
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /çap?/
Noun
cheap m
- Lenited form of ceap.
Verb
cheap
- past indicative analytic of ceap
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cheapy
English
Noun
cheapy (plural cheapies)
- Alternative form of cheapie
Anagrams
- peachy, pechay
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