cheap

About 11.35 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Low or reduced in price.
2. adjective Of poor quality.

   a writer of cheap romances

3. adjective Of little worth.
4. adjective Underhanded or unfair.

   the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks

5. adjective Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.

   Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire.

6. adjective Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

   The ETF is trading cheap to NAV right now; we can arb this by buying the ETF and selling the underlying constituents.

7. adjective Taking little of system time or resources.

   the algorithm is cheap to compute

8. noun Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.

Similar words

bargain catchpenny affordable meretricious cut-price cut-rate dirt cheap flashy low-priced inexpensive

Often followed by

and labor labour to edition as in food money

Word family

cheaper cheapest cheapish cheapishly cheaply cheapness cheapnesses cheaps