| Part of Speech |
Still in Use? |
Definition |
| verb (intransitive) |
No |
To barter, buy and sell; to trade, deal, bargain. |
| verb (transitive) |
No |
To bargain for, bid for, offer to buy, offer a price for, ask the price of, 'price'. |
| verb (transitive) |
No |
To buy. |
| verb (transitive) |
No |
To treat or bargain in order to sell, to offer for sale; also (with inf.) to offer
to sell.
|
| verb |
No |
To fix the price of, set a price on, value. |
| noun (simple) |
No |
A bargain about the bartering or exchanging of one commodity for another, or of giving
money or the like for any commodity; bargaining, trade, buying and selling.
|
| noun (simple) |
No |
The place of buying and selling; market. |
| noun (simple) |
No |
Exchangeable commodities, merchandise, goods, chattels, esp. (live) cattle. |
| noun (contextual) |
No |
Bargain, purchase; qualified from the buyer's point of view as good, great, etc.,
as in the modern 'a good bargain', 'a great bargain', 'a bargain'.
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| noun (contextual) |
No |
State of the market, qualified from the buyer's point of view as good, dear, etc.
good cheap: a state of the market good for the purchaser; low prices, abundance of
commodities, plenty, cheapness. So dear cheap: a dear market, high prices, dearth,
scarcity.
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| noun (contextual) |
No |
Abundance of commodities, plenty, cheapness; opposed to dearth. |
| noun (transferred) |
No |
Plenty, abundance. |
| noun (transferred) |
No |
That costs little (trouble, etc.), easily obtained; plentiful, abundant; of small
value.
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| noun (transferred) |
No |
On good terms, with little effort. |
| adjective |
Yes |
That may be bought at small cost; bearing a relatively low price; inexpensive. Opposed
to dear.
|
| adjective |
Yes |
Applied to money obtainable at a low rate of interest. |
| adjective |
Yes |
Bearing a low price in proportion to its intrinsic value; of good value in proportion
to its price; well worth the price.
|
| adjective |
Yes |
Involving little trouble and hence of little worth; worthless, paltry. |
| adjective |
Yes |
Accounted of small value, made little of, lightly esteemed; esp. brought into contempt
through being made too familiar.
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| adjective |
Yes |
To hold cheap: to hold of small account, think little of, despise. |
| adjective |
Yes |
Low, poor, disparaging. |
| adjective (transferred) |
Yes |
(Applied to the price itself, the place where a commodity is sold, etc.) cheap fare:
a fare at a lower rate than the ordinary fare; also cheap rate; also attrib.
|
| adjective (figurative) |
Yes |
Costing little labour, trouble, effort, etc.; easily obtained. |
| adjective (slang) |
Yes |
In poor health; out of sorts. (Hence cheapness.) |
| adverb |
Yes |
At a low price, at small expense, cheaply; with little trouble, easily. |