Inexpensive Meaning

/ˌɪnɪkˈspɛnsɪv/
A2

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adjInvolving little expense; reasonable in price; cheap.

adjNot extravagant in expenditure.

I'd like the most inexpensive room you have for four nights.
I'd like to rent your most inexpensive car for a week.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
This small compact car is very ____ and uses very little fuel.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The small restaurant serves very ____ but delicious meals that are popular with local students.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English expensive English inexpensive From in- + expensive.

"Cameras for black and white recording are relatively inexpensive, but color cameras cost twice to four times as much." — 1983 [1981], Peter Lenzendorf, The Video Camera Handbook, 2nd impression, Great Britain: David & Charles, translation of original by Niedernhausen: Falken-Verlag GmbH (in German), published 1984, unnumbered page:
"And most neurologists are in the habit of prescribing antispasticity drugs like tizanidine and baclofen, which are oral and inexpensive, but which cause drowsiness and weaken every muscle in the body, not just the target ones." — 2009 March 17, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “After a Stroke, Freeing Muscles With Botox”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2017:
"The Swiss people are frugal and inexpensive in their own habits […]" — 1859, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Switzerland”, in Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, volume II, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company […], published 1872, page 273:

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CEFR Practice Quiz
This small compact car is very ____ and uses very little fuel.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The small restaurant serves very ____ but delicious meals that are popular with local students.

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