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Pronunciation : Cheap
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [AS. ce?p bargain, sale, price; akin to D. Koop purchase, G. Kauf, ICel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman, Chaffer, Cope, v. i.]
Definition : Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Cheap
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [Abbrev. fr. "good cheap": a good purchase or bargain; cf. F. bon march?, ? bon march?. See Cheap, n., Cheapen.]
Definition : 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.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Cheap
Part of Speech : adv.
Definition : Defn: Cheaply. Milton.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
Pronunciation : Cheap
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To buy; to bargain. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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