adjective
- low in price or cost; not expensive
- charging low prices: a chain of cheap stores
- spending or able to spend little: a cheaper clientele
- worth more than the price
- costing little labor or trouble; easily gotten: a cheap victory
- of little value or poor quality; virtually worthless
- deserving of scorn; contemptible: made cheap by their own behavior
- Informal stingy; niggardly
- Econ. lowered in exchange value or buying power; also, available at low interest rates: said of money
Origin:
< good cheap, favorable bargain < ME god chep (used as transl. of OFr à bon marché) < OE ceap, a purchase, bargain, akin to Ger kaufen, to buy; ult. < L caupo, petty tradesman
noun
- a market: now only in place names: Cheapside
- Obsolete a bargain
Origin:
OE ceap, market; akin to Dan kjob (ON kaup) as in Kjöbnhavn (Copenhagen)