Cheap , v. i. To buy; to bargain. [Obs.]
Chaucer.
Cheap , adv. Cheaply. Milton.
Cheap , a. [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 (chēp), n. [AS. ceáp bargain, sale, price; akin to D.
koop purchase, G.
kauf, Icel. kaup bargain. Cf. Cheapen, Chapman,
Chaffer, Cope,
v. i.]
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.
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