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Definition of Cheapen

1. Verb. Lower the grade of something; reduce its worth.

Definition of Cheapen

1. v. t. To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.

Definition of Cheapen

1. Verb. (transitive) to decrease the value of; to make cheap ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) to make vulgar ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) to become cheaper ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cheapen

1. to make cheap [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: cheap

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheapen

Literary usage of Cheapen

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

1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"... (popular : meaning also to sell, cheapen, or tramp) ; faire le coup Je manche, or faire la manche (to call at people's houses) ..."

2. A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett by William Leggett, Theodore Sedgwick (1840)
"... cheapen FLOUR. [From the Plaindealer, February 18, 1837.] OUR paper contains, under the appropriate head, an ! account of the daring and causeless ..."

3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1879)
"ficulty of getting it, and cheapen commodities to buy it. We feel this most sensibly now. We strike down silver, and in doing so increase the value of gold. ..."

4. A Dictionary of American Politics: Comprising Accounts of Political Parties by Everit Brown, Albert Strauss (1907)
"... and further coasts of the Pacific Ocean. country, promote trade, open new and direct markets for out produce and cheapen the cost of transportation. ..."

5. The Science of Finance: An Investigation of Public Expenditures and Public by Henry Carter Adams (1898)
"(&) Taxes may cheapen Production.—A tax may, in the second place, result in cheaper methods of production by inciting producers to invention and more ..."

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