Word Finder - cheaper

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Low and/or reduced in price.

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Of poor quality.

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Of little worth.

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(of an action or tactic in a game of skill) Underhand or unfair.

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the cheap trick of hiding deadly lava under pushable blocks

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Stingy; mean; excessively frugal.

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Insurance is expensive, but don't be so cheap that you risk losing your home because of a fire.

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Trading at a price level which is low relative to historical trends, a similar asset, or (for derivatives) a theoretical value.

When the light bulb was cheaper and better, we ditched kerosene.

For such buried deposits boring is cheaper than sinking.

Through the advent of German and American fur sewingmachines since about 1890 fur work has been done better and cheaper.

In the case of the cheaper and more abundant minerals, such as coal and iron ore, and of large deposits of low-grade ores, the extent and character of the deposit can generally be determined by surface examinations at comparatively small expense.

This is in general a cheaper and quicker method of development for inclined deposits than by a vertical shaft, and it has the added advantage that much information as to the character of the deposit is obtained as the shaft is sunk.

Machinery is now employed for forming and moulding the fillings of the cheaper grades of cigars.

Certain duties were reduced (though in no case greatly reduced) such as those upon wool, some woollens, cheaper grades of cotton cloths, iron, steel rails, copper.

Linseed is subject to extensive and detrimental adulterations, resulting not only from careless harvesting and cleaning, whereby seeds of the flax dodder, and other weeds and grasses are mixed with it, but also from the direct admixture of cheaper and inferior oil-seeds, such as wild rape, mustard, sesame, poppy, &c., the latter adulterations being known in trade under the generic name of " buffum."

An honourable exception to the indolent and rapacious divines of this stamp was Thomas Burgess (bishop of St Davids), to whose exertions is mainly due the foundation of St David's College at Lampeter in 1822, an institution erected to provide a better and cheaper education for intending Welsh clergymen.

Takes a while, but you should travel cheaper, ESP if one journey is at a cheaper time of day.

This compares to an average spend of £ 25.37 at cheaper supermarket forecourt sites.

If you are involved in a large project it is cheaper to make your own lime putty by slaking quicklime.

Choosing to marry abroad can be wildly romantic, not to mention cheaper.

A cheaper solution is to use multi-stage sampling which starts by dividing the country into a number of regions.

The reason for going for the quality option is mostly for comfort, but also because cheaper clothes can look scruffy very quickly.

Lower labels save money on production by using cheaper materials.

These outlet stores sell label merchandise, but at a far cheaper price.

Some degrees are significantly cheaper than others.

Suction gas is being tried in some offices as a supplanter of electricity and is said to be much cheaper as a power producer.

The silver boliviano, however, is rarely seen in circulation because of the cheaper paper currency.

For smoking the Chinese use an extract of opium known as prepared opium or chandoo, and a cheaper preparation is made from 60% used opium known as " opium dross " and 40% native opium.

The process is suited to easy ores and a region where the climate is warm and dry, and horseor mule-power, labour and quicksilver are cheaper than fuel and water.

It thus receives the produce of these fertile river valleys, while the rivers afford a cheaper mode of conveyance than any railway.

Colwyn Bay has become a favourite bathing-place, being near to, and cheaper than, the fashionable Llandudno, and being a centre for picturesque excursions.

Notwithstanding these disabilities, there has been in modern times a new development in the trade of some canals, born of a realization that for certain classes of goods water-transport is cheaper than the swifter railtransport.

A mixture of the cinchona alkaloids, consisting principally of cinchonidine sulphate, with smaller quantities of the sulphates of quinine and cinchonine, is sold under the name of "quinetum" at a cheaper rate than quinine.

Owing to the low price of steel it is possible to make a steel column of equivalent strength cheaper than one in cast iron.

He had proposed to double the tobacco duty, but on reconsideration came to the conclusion that with this burden it would be impossible to keep down the price of the cheaper kinds, and so reduced the additional duty to one of 50%.

Inter- cast-lead pipes, but they were regarded as luxuries, mittent supply, not as necessaries, and gave way to cheaper conduits made, as pump barrels had long been made, by boring out tree trunks, which are occasionally dug up in a good state of preservation.

There is a considerable potato cultivation, which can be indefinitely extended when cheaper means of export are provided.

Since the completion of the railway named goods can be put on the world's markets at a much cheaper rate.

Though still the market of the nomads, the surer and cheaper sea route has almost destroyed the transit trade to which it once owed its wealth, and has even diminished the importance of the annual pilgrim caravan to Mecca.

Indeed, a useful side-effect of easier and cheaper voting should be higher voting levels and greater investor activism.

These are quicker, cheaper, less adversarial and provide a better outcome for the court user.

Mr Singleton, 11 Jul 05 This seemed like a slightly amateurish service which is cheaper than the standard airport parking.

There is no cheaper way of having a car than to run old bangers from the cheapest end of the market.

Bikes with smaller engines also attract cheaper motor bikes with smaller engines also attract cheaper motor bike insurance than large powerful bikes like Tunstall's Honda.

Stool antigen tests do not require a separate appointment at the practice and are cheaper than carbon urea breath testing.

Irish Spiced Beef is a good way of using brisket, one of the cheaper cuts of beef.

Cars with LPG engines give out 75% less carbon monoxide than normal gasoline engines and its 50% cheaper than gasoline.

At the starting batch size of 100, sand casting is cheaper than die casting.

The price of all these books is considerably cheaper than buying from your local bookshop.

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Fuel cells will have to be much cheaper to become commercial in vehicles.

For a cheaper alternative, many people use a home built vacuum pump made from one, or preferably two small refrigeration compressors.

This enables users to print laser output for less than 1 penny a page, cheaper than most network copiers.

They are cheaper and easier to produce than nuclear weapons and they are, as we know, extremely deadly.

Early evidence indicates a cheaper more flexible solution is needed which can be rapidly deployed.

Don Amott stocks the slightly cheaper fixed bed Sloop 1 and rear dinette Sloop 3 models too.

They may last for several years and so may be cheaper than disposable earplugs for regular, long-term use.