The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
cheap, inexpensive
(adjective) relatively low in price or charging low prices; “it would have been cheap at twice the price”; “inexpensive family restaurants”
cheap, chinchy, chintzy
(adjective) embarrassingly stingy
bum, cheap, cheesy, chintzy, crummy, punk, sleazy, tinny
(adjective) of very poor quality; flimsy
brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy
(adjective) tastelessly showy; “a flash car”; “a flashy ring”; “garish colors”; “a gaudy costume”; “loud sport shirts”; “a meretricious yet stylish book”; “tawdry ornaments”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
cheap (countable and uncountable, plural cheaps)
(obsolete) Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
(obsolete) A market; marketplace.
Price.
(obsolete) A low price; a bargain.
Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
cheap (comparative cheaper, superlative cheapest)
Low and/or reduced in price.
Of poor quality.
Of little worth.
(slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.
(informal, chiefly, derogatory) Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
(finance) Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.
• (low/reduced in price): bargain, inexpensive, frugal, no-frills, priced-off
• (of poor quality): flimsy
• (low or reduced in price): dear, expensive, high-priced, pricey
• (of low value): precious, valuable
• (financial markets): rich
cheap (third-person singular simple present cheaps, present participle cheaping, simple past and past participle cheaped)
(intransitive, obsolete) To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
(transitive, obsolete) To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
(transitive, obsolete) To buy; purchase.
(transitive, obsolete) To sell.
Use of cheap as a verb has been surpassed by cheapen.
cheap (comparative more cheap, superlative most cheap)
Cheaply.
• Peach, Pecha, chape, chapĂ©, peach
Source: Wiktionary
Cheap, n. Etym: [AS. ceáp bargain, sale, price; akin to D. Koop purchase, G. Kauf, ICel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.]
Definition: 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. Shak.
Cheap, a. Etym: [Abbrev. fr. "good cheap": a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon marché, à bon marché. See Cheap, n., Cheapen.]
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.
Definition: Cheaply. Milton.
Cheap, v. i.
Definition: To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.