cheaply

English

Etymology

From cheap +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃiːpli/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iːpli

Adverb

cheaply (comparative more cheaply, superlative most cheaply)

1. In a cheap manner; without expending much money.
   • 1936, Wyn Revel, Topics for Women: Trees in a Garden:

     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.

   • 2010, Paul Craig Roberts, How the Economy Was Lost, AK Press, →ISBN, page 8:

     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.

   • 2023 March 22, Paul Clifton, “CILT report urges £50m infill electrification schemes”, in RAIL, number 979, page 8:

     "What we are trying to demonstrate is that freight lines at lower speeds can be electrified much more cheaply. […] "

2. (cricket, by extension) For a low score.

Antonyms

• expensively

Translations

in a cheap manner

• Danish: billigt (da)
• Finnish: edullisesti (fi), halvalla, halvasti (fi)
• German: billig (de)
• Latin: vīliter, salubriter
• Latvian: lēti
• Polish: tanio (pl)
• Russian: дёшево (ru) (djóševo)
• Serbo-Croatian: будзашто, budzašto (sh), јефтино, jeftino (sh)
• Swedish: billigt (sv)

Anagrams

• -cephaly