cheap

CEFRA1

/ˈt͡ʃiːp/

adjective

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Costing little money.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Poor in quality or showing little care.

Examples

  • I got this dress cheap in a sale.

  • Buy cheap and waste your money.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Of little worth.

  2. Of poor quality.

  3. Low or reduced in price.

More examples

In context

  • Cheap apartment houses are multiplying rapidly.

  • Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire.

  • The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.

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Origin

adjective

As a noun, from Middle English chep, from Old English cēap (“trade, market, value”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup. As a verb, from Middle English chepen, from Old English ċēapian (“to buy, bargain, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaupōn, from Proto-Germanic *kaupōną, a verbal derivative of *kaupô (“trader”), from Latin caupō. The adjective originated as a shortening of Middle and Early Modern English good cheap, literally “good purchase” (as in “that was good cheap”, i.e. “that was [a] good purchase”). Compare Dutch goedkoop, French bon marché. Cognates Cognate with Scots chepe (“to sell”), chape (“sale price”), North Frisian keap (“purchase”), West Frisian keap (“purchase, buy, acquis...