The difference between Cheap and Low-cost
When used as adjectives, cheap means low and/or reduced in price, whereas low-cost means low in price.
Cheap is also noun with the meaning: trade.
Cheap is also adverb with the meaning: cheaply.
Cheap is also verb with the meaning: to trade.
check bellow for the other definitions of Cheap and Low-cost
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Cheap as a noun (obsolete):
Trade; traffic; chaffer; chaffering.
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Cheap as a noun (obsolete):
A market; marketplace.
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Cheap as a noun:
Price.
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Cheap as a noun (obsolete):
A low price; a bargain.
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Cheap as a noun:
Cheapness; lowness of price; abundance of supply.
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Cheap as an adjective:
Low and/or reduced in price.
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Cheap as an adjective:
Of poor quality.
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Cheap as an adjective:
Of little worth.
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Cheap as an adjective (slang, of an action or tactic in a game of skill):
Underhand or unfair.
Examples:
"the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks"
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Cheap as an adjective (informal, chiefly, derogatory):
Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.
Examples:
"Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire."
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Cheap as a verb (intransitive, obsolete):
To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.
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Cheap as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.
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Cheap as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To buy; purchase.
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Cheap as a verb (transitive, obsolete):
To sell.
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Cheap as an adverb:
Cheaply.
Examples:
"rfquotek Milton"
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Low-cost as an adjective:
low in price