Dictionary

cheaply en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈt͡ʃiːpli/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English cheap Middle English -ly English -ly English cheaply From cheap + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a cheap manner; without expending much money.
   • Corporations offshore their production, because they can more cheaply produce abroad what they sell to Americans. When corporations bring their offshored production to the U.S. to sell, the goods count as imports. 2010, Paul Craig Roberts, How the Economy Was Lost, AK Press, →ISBN, page 8:
   • "What we are trying to demonstrate is that freight lines at lower speeds can be electrified much more cheaply. […]" 2023 March 22, Paul Clifton, “CILT report urges £50m infill electrification schemes”, in RAIL, number 979, page 8:
   • When native, trees can be bought so cheaply, are so easy to grow, and such delight to the eye, so sheltersome and diverse in the colouring, it beats cockfighting that they are not utilised more in gardens and as shelter belts. 1936, Wyn Revel, Topics for Women: Trees in a Garden:
2. (broadly) For a low score.

Forms

Antonyms

expensively

Translations (18)

da billigt (in a cheap manner) · cs levně (in a cheap manner) · sh будзашто (in a cheap manner) · de billig (in a cheap manner) · uk де́шево (in a cheap manner) · fi halvalla (in a cheap manner) · hu olcsón (in a cheap manner) · pl tanio (in a cheap manner) · sv billigt (in a cheap manner) · fi halvasti (in a cheap manner) · sh jeftino (in a cheap manner) · fi edullisesti (in a cheap manner) · sh јефтино (in a cheap manner) · la vīliter (in a cheap manner) · lv lēti (in a cheap manner) · ru дёшево (in a cheap manner) · la salubriter (in a cheap manner) · sh budzašto (in a cheap manner)