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# cheap

adjective (cheap, cheaper, cheapest); adverb (cheaply)

«cheap» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Cheap means it costs only a little money. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#m1)
2. Cheap can mean low quality, badly made: «a cheap toy that broke». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#m2)
3. Cheap can mean not kind or not fair: «a cheap trick». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#m3)

### In the lessons

a comparison of prices; «cheaper by» or «how much cheaper» asks for a difference; «cheapest» picks the smallest price; in everyday life: compare prices to find the cheapest, but cheap is not always good value; phrases: «cheap and cheerful», «on the cheap», «cheaper by the dozen»

### Examples

- The pen is 2 dollars cheaper than the book. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#x1)
- Which toy is the cheapest? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#x2)
- Apples are cheap this week at 1 dollar a kilo. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#x3)
- How much cheaper is the red bag? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#x4)
- Buying a big pack is often cheaper per item. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#x5)
- The cheap umbrella broke in the wind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#x6)
- Tickets are cheaper for children. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#x7)
- That was a cheap trick to win the game. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#x8)
- Early apples, ladies; early pears and apricots, and all cheap. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/#x9)

### Note

Compares prices: «cheaper than» means a smaller price, so take away. Trap: «A is 3 dollars cheaper than B» – to find B, add 3 to A. Opposite: expensive, dear. Compare value per item: price ÷ number of items.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «cheap» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cheap/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«cheap» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/cheap.html) on Mova free.