Definition of Cheapening

1. Verb. (present participle of cheapen) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cheapening

1. cheapen [v] - See also: cheapen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheapening

cheap as chips
cheap at half the price
cheap drunk
cheap like borscht
cheap money
cheap seats
cheap shot
cheap shots
cheapdate
cheapen
cheapened
cheapener
cheapeners
cheapening
cheapens
cheaper
cheaper by the dozen
cheapest
cheapie
cheapies
cheaping
cheapish
cheapishly
cheapjack
cheapjacks
cheaply
cheapness
cheapnesses

Literary usage of Cheapening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Cheapening FISH; AND THE VILLAGE POST-OFFICE From <The Antiquary' MR. OLDBUCK led the way to the sands. Upon the links or downs close to them were seen four ..."

2. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1874)
"... Towns—London—Increase of Houses—Supply of Food—Improved means of Communication affecting that supply—Cheapening of the necessaries of life—Conveyance of ..."

3. A History of England and the British Empire by Arthur Donald Innes (1915)
"In no field did the cheapening of distribution and production have a more remarkable effect than in that of literature. At cheap books the close of the ..."

4. The Origin and Progress of the American Party in Politics: Embracing a by John Hancock Lee (1855)
"... interests of both the South and North by cheapening the price of labour—The dangerous dispositions of foreign settlers—Basis principles of the American ..."

5. Recent Economic Changes and Their Effect on the Production and Distribution by David Ames Wells (1889)
"... steel rail — Future supply of food commodities — Cheapening of iron — Displacement of labor by machinery — Natural gas — Application of machinery to the ..."

6. The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot by Walter Bagehot, Mrs Russell Barrington (1915)
"X. THE DIFFERENT EFFECT ON TRADE OF A Cheapening OF THE PRECIOUS METALS, AND OF A DEPRECIATION OF INCONVERTIBLE PAPER. We showed last week that neither the ..."

7. Trade and Tariffs by John Mackinnon Robertson (1908)
"The Cheapening of Food I HAVE said that what saved free trade in Britain as against the protectionist assault after 1846 was on one hand the plain ..."

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