Cheap

Definition

cheap /tʃi:p/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ (က) တန္ဖိုးနည္းေသာ။ ေပါ ေသာ။ cheap tickets/fares ❍ the cheap seats in a theatre ❍ Cauliflowers are very cheap at the moment. (ခ) အရေတာ္ေသာ။ ေဈးေတာ္ေသာ။ These wool carpets are cheap at £10.99 a metre. ❍ $3 is very cheap for a hard-cover book. ❍ immigrant workers, used as a source of cheap labour (ie labour that is paid very little, esp unfairly). ၂။ ေဈးေလွ်ာ့ယူေသာ။ a cheap hairdresser/restaurant. ၃။ အညံ့စား။ အေပါစား။ cheap furniture/jewellery/shoes ❍ a cheap and nasty bottle of wine. ၄။ အဆင့္အတန္းမရိွေသာ။ a cheap gibe/joke/remark/retort ❍ That was a cheap trick to play on her. ❍ He's just a cheap crook. ❍ His treatment of her made her feel cheap. ၅။ ( US infml derog ) အလြန္စစ္စီေသာ။ တစ္ျပားကို ႏွစ္ျပားမွတ္၍ ခြာေသာ။ adv ( infml ) ေလွ်ာ့ေဈးျဖင့္။ ေဈးေပါေပါျဖင့္။ get sth cheap ❍ sell sth off cheap. ❏ cheap at the price ; ( US ) cheap for the price [ IDM ] ဘယ္ေလာက္ပဲ ေပးရေပးရ တန္တယ္။ The holiday will be very expensive but if it helps to make you fit and healthy again it will be cheap at the price. ❏ cheaply adv ၁။ ေဈးေပါေပါ။ buy/sell/get sth cheaply. ၂။ ခပ္ညံ့ညံ့(ျဖင့္)။ အညံ့စားမ်ားျဖင့္။ The room was cheaply furnished. cheapness n [U] ❏ go cheap [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေလွ်ာ့ေဈးျဖင့္ေရာင္းသည္။ The local shop has some radios going cheap. ❏ not come cheap [ IDM ] ေဈးႀကီးေပးရသည္။ ေပါေပါမရ။ High quality electronic equipment doesn't come cheap. ❏ on the cheap [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေဈးေပါေပါ။ ေဈး ေခ်ာင္ေခ်ာင္။ buy sell/get sth on the cheap.

Examples

1. People should have access to cheap
2. fresh food.
3. The local buses are cheap and reliable.
4. A cheap and plentiful source of energy
5. The machine is relatively cheap to build but expensive to maintain.
6. Silver is very cheap in Mexico.
7. People were drinking cheap wine from plastic cups.
8. He was always buying her cheap jewellery.
9. [a cheap imitation] : Always ask for our products by name – beware of cheap imitations!
10. I’m not interested in scoring cheap points in this debate.
11. [a cheap joke/jibe] : The Minister should be dealing with the problem
12. not making cheap jibes.
13. [a cheap trick] : He said he realized it had been a cheap trick and he was sorry.
14. It happened during the war when life was cheap.
15. She’s so cheap she wouldn’t even buy her own mother a birthday card.