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Webster 1913 Edition
Cheap
Cheap
(chēp)
, Noun.
[AS.
ceáp
bargain, sale, price; akin to D. koop
purchase, G. kauf
, Icel. kaup
bargain. Cf. Cheapen
, Chapman
, Chaffer
, Cope
, v. i.] A bargain; a purchase; cheapness.
[Obs.]
The sack that thou hast drunk me would have bought me lights as good
cheap
at the dearest chandler’s in Europe. Shakespeare
Cheap
,Adj.
1.
Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.
Where there are a great sellers to a few buyers, there the thing to be sold will be
cheap
. Locke.
2.
Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
You grow
cheap
in every subject's eye. Dryden.
Dog cheap
, very cheap, – a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap.
[Colloq.]
Cheap
,adv.
Cheaply.
Milton.
Cheap
,Verb.
I.
To buy; to bargain.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cheap
CHEAP
, a.1.
Bearing a low price, in market; that may be purchased at a low price; that is, at a price as low or lower than the usual price of the article or commodity, or at a price less than the real value. The sense is always comparative; for a price deemed cheap at one time is considered dear at another.It is a principle which the progress of political science has clearly established; a principle that illustrates at once the wisdom of the creator and the blindness of human cupidity, that it is cheaper to hire the labor of freemen than to compel the labor of slaves.
2.
Being of small value; common; not respected; as cheap beauty.Make not yourself cheap in the eyes of the world.
CHEAP
,Noun.