(n.) Having a low price in market; of small cost or price, as compared with the usual price or the real value.
(n.) Of comparatively small value; common; mean.
(adv.) Cheaply.
(v. i.) To buy; to bargain.
Example Sentences:
(1) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
(2) It's certainly fun, cheap and eco-friendly and I would definitely consider it for hops within the UK, but the specific London to Paris car-pooling service is not one I'd like to experience again myself.
(3) Like low blood pressure after a heart attack, then, cheap oil should arguably be regarded not as a sign of rude health, but rather as a consequence of malaise.
(4) It would also throw a light on the appalling conditions in which cheap migrant labour is employed to toil Europe's agriculturally rich southern land.
(5) Everton's Roberto Martínez felt Bernstein's criticism was a "very cheap" shot.
(6) Wes Streeting, president of the National Union of Students , said: "My concern is about employers exploiting students and graduates for cheap labour.
(7) But many customers have been impressed by the speed of the technology and cheapness of the fares, and the company’s valuation continues to rise.
(8) Larger cheap cigars and cigarillos would have to be sold in packages of four.
(9) Some consumers are aware we are earning so little, but there are plenty who really don’t care as long as it’s cheap John has calculated that he often takes home as little as £5.75 an hour, and rarely earns above the national minimum wage of £7.50.
(10) "I am deeply concerned that a private security firm is not only providing policing on the cheap but failing to show a duty of care to its staff and threatening to withdraw an opportunity to work at the Olympics as a means to coerce them to work unpaid."
(11) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
(12) Such diets are easy to prepare and relatively cheap, and they offer important advantages over conventional feeding in the hospital treatment of malnourished children.
(13) The policies of zero tolerance equip local and federal law-enforcement with increasingly autocratic powers of coercion and surveillance (the right to invade anybody's privacy, bend the rules of evidence, search barns, stop motorists, inspect bank records, tap phones) and spread the stain of moral pestilence to ever larger numbers of people assumed to be infected with reefer madness – anarchists and cheap Chinese labour at the turn of the 20th century, known homosexuals and suspected communists in the 1920s, hippies and anti-Vietnam war protesters in the 1960s, nowadays young black men sentenced to long-term imprisonment for possession of a few grams of short-term disembodiment.
(14) The scheme, which gives lenders access to cheap finance in order to help borrowers, has been criticised for its limited impact so far on the financial health of the small and medium-sized businesses seen as key to powering economic recovery.
(15) It said Clinton's "cheap shots" had a hidden agenda to discredit China's engagement with Africa and "drive a wedge between China and Africa for the US selfish gain."
(16) The prospect of that tap being turned off has already seen capital pouring out of emerging markets and currencies, potentially exposing underlying weaknesses in economies that have been flourishing on a ready supply of cheap credit.
(17) This week, East Midlands Trains more than doubled the cost of some peak-time trains to London, arguing those fares were too cheap.
(18) You are hunting for signs of the assembly of injuries - a broken nose, knocked-out teeth, fractured eye socket - incurred by falling face-first down a fire escape in Michigan while high on crystal meth, crack cocaine and cheap wine.
(19) Exporters and politicians in the US have become increasingly frustrated with the Chinese government's interventionist tendency to keep its currency artificially weak – a practice that means exports of Chinese goods are cheap around the world, while imports of foreign goods are expensive to Chinese consumers.
(20) The price G4S is paying amounts to 8.5 times of top-line earnings - "by no means cheap," said Seymour Pierce analyst Kevin Lapwood.
Cheaply
Definition:
(adv.) At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
(2) "We have done it very cheaply anyway and are not performing for long, but I do know people who have been put off by the intensely commercial atmosphere of the fringe."
(3) The following conclusions can be drawn: small particle 99mTc-DTPA aerosol can be easily and cheaply produced by a commercial device; such a radioaerosol is well suited for the evaluation of small and large airways patency, as reflected by MEF75 and FEV1 respectively, with a diagnostic yield comparable to non-hydrosoluble radioaerosols; the original semiquantitative description of the deposition patterns proposed and validated in this study is quite easy to implement and it yields a high correlation with pulmonary function tests; moreover such an approach does not require digital data processing; the sensitivity of 99mTc-DTPA for the diagnosis of bronchial obstruction is very high and superior to routine pulmonary function tests; in addition the ventilation scan allows the topographical localization of the obstructions themselves.
(4) Much of it is made from the same wood panelling from the caravan floors, and is readily and cheaply available in the local markets.
(5) Take people by the hand and show them how to cook cheaply and quickly.
(6) With the Gulf of Cádiz and the Atlantic beyond being among Europe’s most fertile marine areas, and a climate where mangoes and bananas thrive, visitors eat extremely well – and surprisingly cheaply – here.
(7) Continuous narcotic infusions are most effective in relieving postoperative pain and may be given cheaply and reliably.
(8) You could build your own cheaply – you'll need two chambers with a vent, hatch and removable seat – but if you want something more attractive you will have to splash out.
(9) About 18% of May home sales were foreclosures or short sales, and were sold cheaply: at about a 15% discount.
(10) Shale gas is not cheap - "Shale gas has been produced and sold cheaply (at times at prices below the cost of production) in the USA.
(11) In theory, buying permits to pollute from those who can cut their emissions most cheaply is attractive – maximum bang per buck and a flow of cash to pay for investments.
(12) However, the role of diagnostic electron microscopy in tumor diagnosis diminished rapidly when it was noted that there were a finite number of diagnostic subcellular organelles and that immunohistochemistry could yield the answer to questions which related to tumor diagnosis more rapidly and cheaply.
(13) Cable insisted on Wednesday that Royal Mail had not been sold too cheaply when questioned by members of the BIS committee.
(14) Economic theory about market competition would suggest that, on seeing the huge profits being made, other producers would enter the market and produce the drug more cheaply.
(15) When we attacked City they wobbled but our final ball was not consistent – we gave it away far too cheaply, and to lump it up far too quickly.
(16) Central to the lobbying effort is a report claiming that the EU could meet its 2050 carbon targets €900bn more cheaply by using gas than by investing in renewables.
(17) Part of the hesitation on the Beatles' part may have been that the band have always been heavily protective of their music, keen never to devalue the brand by giving away their songs too cheaply: when the disruptive effects of the internet were first felt within the music industry, one common response was to start selling CDs at heavily marked-down prices, but McCartney and co never succumbed to this pressure.
(18) New methods have recently been introduced to screen large numbers of chemicals quickly and cheaply which rely on the unifying hypothesis that all carcinogenic chemicals are electrophiles or must be converted to such by metabolism.
(19) These barriers can be obviated by avoiding response cost contingencies, providing reinforcers cheaply, and including other systems in the development and implementation of token contingencies.
(20) The further surge in the share price, which values Royal Mail at £4.8bn compared with the government's maximum £3.3bn valuation, has fuelled accusations that the government sold off the 500-year-old company too cheaply.