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a: a good cheap hotel. cheap tickets. b : purchasable below the going price or the real value. so, strictly speaking, prices cannot be cheap since there is usually no price for a price; goods and services can be cheap or expensive but prices, as you say, can only be low or high.
Somehow it really grates me when people say that something is at a "cheaper/more expensive price" or "cheaper/more expensive rate". My understanding is that prices and rates can be lower or higher, whilst products/services can be cheaper/more expensive.
Australia English. Mar 30, 2010. #3. I am a pedantic old fossil, and I always say that prices are low, and that goods are cheap. However, it's very common for people to say " at a cheaper price ". You will also hear " for a cheaper price ". You can also say for a lower price, for a better price, at a lower price, for a lower price.
Although the OED lists a number of different usages of cheap XXXX, with meaning equivalent to cheap price, that specific collocation does not appear. The British National Corpus lists 10 examples of cheap price, 93 of cheap rate. Cheap price is certainly used, but it has the same somewhat clunky feel for me as Trisia has expressed above.
Hello, which of these sentences are correct? 1. I sell my products at a very expensive price. 2. I sell my products at very expensive prices. 3. I sell my products in/with a very expensive price. 4. I sell my products in/with very expensive prices. Thank you for your help.
Cheap - Barato Cheaper - Más barato (comparando.) The cheapest - El más barato. He used to dress cheap shirts. - El vestía camisas baratas. The prices in Lalo's store are cheaper than Eduardo's store. - Los precios en la tienda de Lalo son más baratos que los de la tienda de Eduardo. I think is rigth. Is the cheapest of all.
buy them cheap:9980 hits. buy them for cheap:49 hits. As @bib says, for cheap may well be patterned after for free, where there's also disagreement over "acceptable" usage. For me personally, for cheap doesn't "pass grammatical muster", but I have no problem with people using adjectival cheap instead of adverbial cheaply.
I do not expect an answer as soon as tomorrow. means that the person expects that the answer will not come until the day after tomorrow at the earliest. This is a polite way of indicating that the request is not urgent and the person asking the question understands that the other person may be busy. Of course, if the answer does come tomorrow ...
In formal usage, it should definitely be is:. Neither of these options is available. This is the traditional rule (iirc, Fowler’s discusses this at length).
You can live beyond your means while overindulging a cheap sense of taste, or you can have expensive taste and live within your means by not indulging it. – Lii Commented Mar 1, 2016 at 15:01