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ADJECTIVE cheap COMPARATIVE cheaper SUPERLATIVE cheapest
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cheap English

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What does cheap mean?
Definitions in simple English

cheap

If something is cheap, it costs very little money. "I bought this for $37 last week, but today I saw it in the store for only $22." "Wow! That's cheap." If something is cheap, it is low in quality. I don't like that jacket. It looks too cheap. Is it plastic?

cheap

(= inexpensive) relatively low in price or charging low prices it would have been cheap at twice the price inexpensive family restaurants (= flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, loud, meretricious, tawdry) tastelessly showy a flash car a flashy ring garish colors a gaudy costume loud sport shirts a meretricious yet stylish book tawdry ornaments (= bum) of very poor quality; flimsy embarrassingly stingy

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Simple sentences

The food wasn't good, but at least it was cheap.
Gasoline is no longer a cheap fuel.
Cheap sake makes you sick.
The cheap prices tempted me to buy things I didn't need.
It seemed to be cheap.
Pocket calculators are as cheap to buy as a pair of socks, and as essential to thousands of British school children as a pencil and eraser.
It was really cheap.
You're making yourself appear cheap.
It is both good and cheap.
That's just a cheap publicity stunt.
It is cheap, but on the other hand it is not good.
It's easy to make and it's cheap.
Wow! That's cheap!
Buy cheap and waste your money.
I want to buy this book not because it is cheap, but because it is useful.
The house went cheap.
But there are always some cheap standing tickets for the finals that you can buy on the day.
This wasn't cheap, was it?
This car was so cheap that he could buy it.
Eggs are cheap this season.
Motorcycles are very cheap.
That's a cheap store.

Movie subtitles

Not cheap. You couldn't bring yourself to throw them away.
Yeah. But it's not cheap.
It's cute, cheap.
How cheap is cheap?
Now, here's a lot, folks. It doesn't look very big on top, but it's all yours as far down as you wanna go, and it's dirt cheap.
He don't have to waste his time on cheap gas stations.
If I wasn't on the force, I'd have done the job cheap.
You've been reading a lot of cheap tabloids.
What do you think my friends would say if they found me in a cheap flat?
It isn't cheap.
To engage in a brawl, a cheap common brawl in my own home.
Do you expect me to let this house turn into a cheap barroom?
Just cheap watches.
But it's not cheap. - How much?
Really cheap.
What would my friends say if they found me in a cheap flat?
To engage in a cheap, common brawl in my own home.
Do you expect me to let this house turn into a cheap bar?
Cheap watches?
Because she's not a princess at all. Because she's just a common, cheap adventuress.
Oh, i dare say we have enough to pay this bill and a cheap boat home.
I didn't ask you for a cheap room.
So you can release your cheap mouth again?
It's all your doing, you cheap little scheister.
It's sad enough when a girl like you grieves herself sick over a cheap prize fighter.
But she's only a cheap gold digger.
But you're all alike.cheap sports!
You cheap bunch of chiselers.
If that cheap district attorney get too fresh Nick the Barber give him close shave.
YOUR FREEDOM FOR A FEW CHEAP KISSES.
When I came here to live, did I ask you for a cheap room?
The ventilation is great, my room has a southern exposure, the rates are cheap, but somehow or other, the atmosphere is too confining.
But he's stayin' in Africa, so I bought it from him cheap.
These plans of war are as valuable as your life. Pretty cheap.

News and current affairs

Good, healthy, and cheap food had to be accessible for all citizens.
A quarter of the labor force and half of Spain's youth are unemployed, reflecting the country's loss of competitiveness in the wake of the real-estate bubble inflated by cheap euro credit in the pre-crisis period.
It is now clear that the ECB itself has caused a large part of the capital flight from countries like Spain and Italy, because the cheap credit that it offered drove away private capital.
France, too, has become uncompetitive, owing to the cheap credit brought by the euro in its initial years.
There are many who would solve the problem by routing more and more cheap credit through public channels - bailout funds, eurobonds, or the ECB - from the eurozone's healthy core to the troubled South.
Above all, however, the permanent public provision of cheap credit would ultimately lead to a lingering infirmity, if not to Europe's economic collapse, because the eurozone would become a central management system with state control over investment.
Instead, let's fund the basic research that will make green energy too cheap and easy to resist.
Adjusted for inflation, gas has not been this cheap for the past 35 years, with the price this year 3-5 times lower than it was in the mid-2000's.
The story of General Stanculescu, sentenced to 15 years in prison, reads like a cheap novel, with treason thrown into the mix.
Concerns have been raised about the influx of cheap labor.
Covered wagons were not cheap.
Again, many factors underlie this, including a diet of cheap, unhealthy fried foods, but the sedentary time spent in front of the TV is an important influence as well.
We have failed to understand that a North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) that achieves its full potential cannot be accomplished on the cheap.
France's basic problem, like that of the countries most affected by the crisis, is that the wave of cheap credit that the euro's introduction made possible fueled an inflationary bubble that robbed it of its competitiveness.
Today, with interest rates near or at record lows in many countries, it is relatively cheap to speculate in gold instead of investing in bonds.
These factors make a good argument for coal as a cheap alternative source of Africa's power.
The trick for an immigrant is to always buy cheap, because he never knows how long it will be before a car breaks down.
It is cheap because it is plentiful.
As I argued in my 2007 book Cool It, the most rational response to global warming is to make alternative energy technologies so cheap that the whole world can afford them.
Gas became artificially cheap, consumers seldom bothered to turn the thermostat down, and producers stopped investing.
Imports of cheap Chinese goods threaten to displace regional production, particularly in labor-intensive manufacturing sectors that are finding it difficult to compete.
Effective strategies are cheap and simple: it's mostly a question of getting what's needed (micronutrients, cleaner forms of fuel, free condoms, mosquito nets) to those in need.
The immigrant receives a higher wage than at home, and the target country benefits from cheap labor, which creates more value than it costs.
They continue to hold very large positions in dollar-denominated assets, which they would not do if they thought the US faced a choice between a cheap dollar and a deep depression.

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