Read full poem →Edition_, _March 1898_. _Sixth Edition_, _1898_. _Seventh Edition_,
_1899_. _Eighth and Cheaper Edition_ (_1s. net_). _Methuen & Co._,
_Ltd._, _August 1910_. _Ninth Edition_, _September 1910_. ‘_The Ballad
Dictionary Entry
Costing less money than something else.
In a Sentence
“Buying in bulk often makes individual items much cheaper.”
Origin
Comparative of 'cheap', from Middle English 'cheap' (market, price), from Old Norse 'kaupa' (to buy).
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “cheaper”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Yes, makin' mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep
Is cheaper than them uniforms, an' they're starvation cheap;
An' hustlin' drunken soldiers when they're goin' large a bit
Read full poem →A cheaper edition of the same, Swift and Co., London, 1912.
The bulk of this edition destroyed by fire.
Read full poem →When I first saw Mr. Osgood's beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady
of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper
annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume