verb
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To decrease the value of; to make cheap
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To make vulgar
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To become cheaper
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To bargain for, ask the price of.
noun
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The process by which something is cheapened or made vulgar.
Examples of cheapening in a Sentence
This very cheapening of many commodities in 1913, side by side with which went also a cheapening of many manufactured articles, was indicated as the sign of a decline in the power of consumption of the population.
The canal system of Canada, linking together the great natural waterways, is also of much present and prospective importance in cheapening the transportation of agricultural produce.
Thus weighting, which was until recently thought to apply only to black silks, and from which coloured silks were comparatively free, is now cheapening and deteriorating the latter in pretty much the same ratio as the former.
Statistics.-The cheapening of manufacture by improvements in processes and machinery, and by the increase in the scale of operations, has been very great.
Just as books were the means of multiplying, cheapening and disseminating ideas, so engravings on copper or wood were the means of multiplying, cheapening and disseminating images which gave vividness to the ideas, or served, for those ignorant of letters, in their stead.
He understands the cheapening effect of the division of labour.
As any given region is opened up by railways, cheapening transportation, milling is apt to give way to smelting.
Though this process is now largely supplemented, and even displaced, by various rivals, at the time it was brought out it was of enormous industrial importance, since it effected a great cheapening in the price of steel, and led to that material being widely substituted for others which were inferior in almost every respect but that of cost.
Shame on Per Aspera for so cheapening the treasure they've published.
Electrical heating appliances have only recently passed the experimental stage; there is, however, undoubtedly a great future for electric heating, and the perfecting of the together with the cheapening of the electric stove, g p g current, may be expected to result in many of the other stoves and convectors being superseded.
Americans think that this statement is altogether too pessimistic. Not sufficient account had been taken of the uncultivated land in farms, and of the possibilities of improving the yield, and still further cheapening the product.
He is raising the value of citizenship, not cheapening it.
First, high quality vodka is essentially tasteless; therefore, cheaper vodka may end up cheapening your drink and giving it a bitter or unpleasant aftertaste.
It might seem that nothing so short as a text message can be more than banal, cheapening the word "love".