cheapadj/ˈt͡ʃiːp/

• 1

  Low or reduced in price.

  • Where there are many sellers and few purchases, land will be cheap.
  • One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
• 2

  Of poor quality.

• 3

  Of little worth.

  • You grow cheap in every subject's eye.
• 4

  slangUnderhanded or unfair.

  • the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks
• 5

  derogatoryinformalStingy; mean; excessively frugal.

  • Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire.
• 6

  businessfinanceTrading 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.
• 7

  computingengineeringmathematicsTaking little of system time or resources.

  • the algorithm is cheap to compute

cheapnoun/ˈt͡ʃiːp/

• 1

  obsoleteTrade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.

• 2

  obsoleteA market; marketplace.

• 3

  obsoletePrice.

• 4

  obsoleteA low price; a bargain.

  • The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good cheap at the dearest chandler's in Europe.
• 5

  obsoleteCheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.

cheapverb/ˈt͡ʃiːp/

• 1

  obsoleteTo trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.

• 2

  obsoleteTo bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.

• 3

  obsoleteTo buy; purchase.

• 4

  obsoleteTo sell.

cheapadv/ˈt͡ʃiːp/

• 1

  obsoleteCheaply.

  • I bought this cheap in a junk shop.
  • The pet shop has some budgerigars going cheap.