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cut-rate en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Offered for sale or rent at a lower than usual rate.
    • Cut-rate first class return fares are again on offer for weekend travel between London and Glasgow or Edinburgh until March 25; compared with the ordinary fare of £10 16s, £7 10s is the Saturday price of a first class return between Euston and Glasgow, while £7 7s 6d, instead of £10 13s, buys a first class return on Saturdays between Edinburgh Waverley and Kings Cross ... 1961 January, “News in Brief”, in Trains Illustrated, page 10:
    • Sometimes cut-rate airfares are available because the seat would otherwise go empty.
  2. (broadly, not-comparable) Cheaply made.
    • For this jobsite, we'll have none of those shoddy, cut-rate materials, please. Send us the good stuff for this job.
    • Near-synonyms: second-rate, third-rate, fourth-rate, fifth-rate

Antonyms

first-rate

Relateds

flat-rate · cutback

Synonyms

discount · second-rate · discount · fourth-rate · fifth-rate · third-rate

Translations (3)

sv lågpris- (offered at a lower than usual rate) · de herabgesetzt (offered at a lower than usual rate) · de Billig- (offered at a lower than usual rate)