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cheaply

cheaply

40 1.0
In a way that costs little money
  • adverb
  • /ˈtʃiːpli/
translation icon : baratamente
  • You can buy fresh vegetables cheaply at the local market.
  • buy cheaply
  • sell cheaply
  • make cheaply

If you want to make more ports, you can cheaply get a network switch.

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Examples

  • The city, for its part, wanted the case to go away as quietly and as cheaply as possible.

    Academic text (2003)
  • These are available cheaply on sites like Aliexpress or eBay.

  • You, you can, you can do everything more cheaply now than you could before.

  • In some cases they bought up shares cheaply from their employees.

  • And obviously you can convert these rooms rather cheaply when you have a building already built.

  • The thing is that you could find good food a lot more cheaply and with a little bit more fun.

  • The short answer is yes, but not cheaply or easily.

  • But now because we have the technology to access it cheaply, I think we are seeing a revolution.

  • Because they can produce roses cheaply and trade them for computers.

  • In many cases, it may be possible for nations to relatively cheaply adopt tools developed elsewhere.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

dirt cheap
vscheaply
  • Informal
14 2.8

Very cheap and costing almost nothing

marks a low price but not usually as extreme
on a shoestring
vscheaply
  • Informal
8 5.6

Doing something with very little money

talks about the low price of something rather than limited budget
inexpensively
vscheaply
5 2.6

Without spending much money

uses a simpler everyday word for the same idea
affordably
vscheaply
2 3.2

In a way that does not cost too much money

describes low cost in general, not relative to a buyer's budget
for a song
vscheaply
  • Informal
1 4.3

It costs very little

describes a low price without implying it is extremely low
1 2.7

At a much lower price than usual

refers to a low cost without that comparison
parsimoniously
vscheaply
  • Specialized
8.2

Using only a few simple parts or ideas

applies to money specifically rather than general frugal use

Antonyms

5 3.2

In a way that costs a lot of money

How Cheap

dirt cheap
  • Informal
14 2.8
cheaply
40 1.0
half-price
28 1.1
affordably
2 3.2
expensively
5 3.2

Surface Forms

cheaply positive

Morphology

cheaply = cheap (transparent) = cheap + ly

Formed by the productive adjective-to-adverb suffix '-ly' with meaning 'in a cheap manner', directly derivable by learners.

Etymology

Cheaply comes from the word cheap, which comes from an old English word meaning 'market' or 'bargain', so you can picture a busy market where things are sold for little money. That's why cheaply means 'in a way that costs little money'.