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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.
The phrase "cheap at half the price" is exactly what it says. The person that said it meant "that item is cheap and it's half the price as it should be". Another way of saying it is, "that's cheap and at half the price". The flip side to this is to say "that would be cheap at twice the price", in other words half price.
American English. Jul 2, 2015. #11. I agree with prices being high or low, but you will certainly hear "prices are expensive," so don't be too shocked. One thing about the forum is that it allows us the time and the thought to come up with good answers, but in conversation, sometimes we say things we wouldn't write. Last edited: Jul 2, 2015.
Here are a few words that mean 'low-cost' that I can think of: Inexpensive. Not costing a great deal; cheap. Cheap. Low in price, especially in relation to similar items or services. and finally, Economical. Giving good value or return in relation to the money, time, or effort expended.
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.
1. There is a big difference between a price point and a price, at least in the world of merchandising. A price is the amount that a retailer charges the buyer for a specific item. In contrast, a price point is more conceptual, and refers to the amount in the buyer’s mind. There is a difference, for example, between a hundred-dollar shoe and ...
May 29, 2014. #9. 'Cheap' is possibly not an adverb there but a predicative adjective: buy them cheap = buy them when they are cheap. There is a difference between this verb and others where an adverb meaning is required; with those, only 'cheaply' is possible: He buys vegetables as cheap/ cheaply as he can.