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Definition of Cheapened
1. cheapen [v] - See also: cheapen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheapened
Literary usage of Cheapened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of American Manufactures from 1608 to 1860 by Edwin Troxell Freedley, John Leander Bishop, Edward Young (1866)
"... while the cost of hardware, implements, and machinery, is cheapened, and the
number of railroads, bridges, canals, and other improvements increased. ..."
2. Scientific American Reference Book by Albert Allis Hopkins, Alexander Russell Bond (1904)
"... in the process of manufacture, the subject of a patented improvement which
has produced a new or better article, or cheapened the cost of manufacture. ..."
3. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1879)
"The same disastrous results would attend the decisions of the House if they were
cheapened by frequency; above all, if the hope could be entertained of ..."
4. How Western Farmers are Benefited by Protection by David Hastings Mason (1875)
"FARMERS' SUPPLIES cheapened BY PROTECTION. JO supplies would be as cheap as before
the war." This is a constant assertion by the Free Trade press—an ..."
5. A Vocational Reader: By Park Pressey by Park Pressey (1916)
"THE MAN WHO cheapened TACKS ADAPTED Thomas Blanchard is best known as the man
who invented the lathe which turns gunstocks, shoe lasts, and all sorts of ..."
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