- for a low price
- I got this dress cheap in a sale.
- You can buy it cheaper elsewhere.
- They're selling fabrics cheap this week.
- Two people can live cheaper than one.
- private equity companies that borrow cheap
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- be going
- buy something
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from an obsolete phrase good cheap ‘a good bargain’, from Old English cēap ‘bargaining, trade’, based on Latin caupo ‘small trader, innkeeper’.
Idioms
See cheap in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe going cheap
- to be offered for sale at a lower price than usual
- The house was going cheap because the owner wanted a quick sale.
- There was usually some bread going cheap at the end of the day.
something does not come cheap
- something is expensive
- Violins like this don't come cheap.
- A quality pair of Italian shoes doesn't come cheap.
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