Tra từ cheap - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

cheap [cheap cheaper cheapest] adjective, adverb BrE [tʃiːp] NAmE [tʃiːp]
adjective (cheap·er, cheap·est)

LOW PRICE
1. costing little money or less money than you expected
Syn: ↑inexpensive
•cheap fares
• Personal computers are cheap and getting cheaper.
• Cycling is a cheap way to get around.
•The printer isn't exactly cheap at £200.
•immigrant workers, used as a source of cheap labour (= workers who are paid very little, especially unfairly)
•A good education is not cheap.
• (BrE)Calls cost 36p a minute cheap rate.
see also ↑dirt cheap
Opp: ↑expensive
2. charging low prices
•a cheap restaurant/hotel
•a cheap taxi firm
• (BrE) We found a cheap and cheerful cafe (= one that is simple and charges low prices but is pleasant).
Opp: ↑expensive

POOR QUALITY
3. (disapproving)low in price and quality
•cheap perfume/jewellery/shoes
• (BrE)a cheap and nasty bottle of wine

UNKIND
4. unpleasant or unkind and rather obvious
•I was tired of his cheap jokes at my expense.
•a comedian who is always looking for cheap laughs
•to score a cheap political advantage

LOW STATUS
5. (disapproving)having a low status and therefore not deserving respect
•He's just a cheap crook.
•His treatment of her made her feel cheap (= ashamed, because she had lost her respect for herself).

NOT GENEROUS
6. (NAmE) (BrE mean) (informal, disapproving)not liking to spend money
•Don't be so cheap!
more at life is cheap at ↑life

Word Origin:
late 15th cent.: from an obsolete phrase good cheap ‘a good bargain’, from Old English cēap ‘bargaining, trade’, based on Latin caupo ‘small trader, innkeeper’.

Thesaurus:
cheap adj.
1.
•You can get incredibly cheap fares on the Internet.
budget • • economical • • affordable • • reasonable • • half-price • • inexpensive • |especially business competitive •
Opp: expensive
cheap/budget/economical/affordable/reasonable/competitive prices/rates/fares
cheap/economical/affordable/inexpensive/competitive products/services
cheap/affordable/inexpensive goods
2. (disapproving)
•cheap and nasty bottles of wine
poor • • bad • • second-rate • • inferior • |BrE, taboo, slang crap • • shit • |AmE, taboo, slang crappy • • shitty •
a/an cheap/poor/bad/second-rate/inferior copy/imitation
a/an cheap/bad/second-rate/inferior/crap/shit/crappy/shitty product

Synonyms:
cheap
competitive • budget • affordable • reasonable • inexpensive
These words all describe a product or service that costs little money or less money than you expected.
cheap • costing little money or less money than you expected; charging low prices. Cheap can also be used in a disapproving way to suggest that sth is poor quality as well as low in price: ▪ a bottle of cheap perfume.
competitive • (of prices, goods or services) as cheap as or cheaper than those offered by other companies; able to offer goods or services at competitive prices.
budget • [only before noun] (used especially in advertising) cheap because it offers only a basic level of service.
affordable • cheap enough for most people to afford.
reasonable • (of prices) not too expensive.
inexpensive • (rather formal) cheap. Inexpensive is often used to mean that sth is good value for its price. It is sometimes used instead of cheap, because cheap can suggest that sth is poor quality.
cheap/competitive/budget/affordable/reasonable prices/fares/rates
cheap/competitive/budget/affordable/inexpensive products/services

Example Bank:
•It's a good restaurant, and incredibly cheap.
•Shoes like that don't come cheap.
•The bag looks cheap and nasty.
•The glasses are plain without looking cheap.
•The school managed to get a couple of computers on the cheap.
•They're selling fabrics cheap this week.
•a brand new radio going cheap
•A quality pair of Italian shoes doesn't come cheap.
•Don't be so cheap!
•He was so generous he made the other guests look cheap.
•He's just trying to score a cheap political advantage.
•He's so cheap, he'd never fly to London in a million years.
•His treatment of her made her feel cheap.
•I was tired of her cheap jokes at my expense.
•It was just a bottle of cheap perfume.
•Italy was a very cheap country to visit in those days.
•She was just too cheap to buy a real present.
•The market has been flooded with cheap imports.
•The printer isn't exactly cheap at £200.
•The room was filled with the smell of cheap perfume.
•The skirt was dirt cheap.
•The town is full of immigrant workers, used as a source of cheap labour.
•They're offering incredibly cheap fares to Eastern Europe.
•They've got brand new CD players going cheap.
•We brought a few cheap and nasty bottles of wine home from holiday.
•We found a cheap and cheerful cafe.
•a cheap floozy/tart/whore
•The watch was suspiciously cheap; it was probably a fake.
•cheap and nasty products with brand names you've never heard of
Idioms: ↑cheap at the price ▪ ↑going cheap ▪ ↑on the cheap ▪ ↑something does not come cheap
Derived Word: ↑cheapness

adverb (comparative cheap·er, no superlative)(informal)
for a low price
•I got this dress cheap in a sale.

Word Origin:
late 15th cent.: from an obsolete phrase good cheap ‘a good bargain’, from Old English cēap ‘bargaining, trade’, based on Latin caupo ‘small trader, innkeeper’.

See also: ↑cheap at half the price ▪ ↑cheap at twice the price ▪ ↑mean