Cheapen
['tʃiːp(ə)n] or ['tʃipən]
Definition
(v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.
(a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.
Typist: Rosa
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Bid for, bargain for, ask the price of, try to get cheaper, haggle about, chaffer about.[2]. Make cheap, lessen in value.
Typist: Nora
Examples
- He contrived so many little tools to cheapen the work that he made lots of money. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I must look into that: it would cheapen the repairs. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It can be procured in almost any drug store, and since 1874 a new process in its manufacture has cheapened it in price and placed it within the reach of all. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Although it cost $33,000,000 and required seven years for completion, the labor-saving cableways greatly cheapened its cost and shortened the time of its construction. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The use of electric motors has greatly extended, cheapened, and expedited the street car service. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- And now since 1880, the chemists are pushing aside the vegetable processes, and substituting mineral processes, by which tanning is still further shortened and cheapened. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I have been set down as tainted and should be cheapened to them all the same. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It has so cheapened steel that it now competes with iron in price. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- While the process of manufacture was cheapened, the newer craftsmen wisely held to the art standards of the old masters. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- In 1882, however, a machine for doing this was invented, thereby dispensing with the old hand method and cheapening the operation. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Late improvements in the manufacture of inks are due to the discovery and cheapening of substances which can be used in preparing them. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Another was a cheapening of school-books. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of the incidents which caused a very great cheapening was that, when we started, one of the important processes had to be done by experts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For cheapening the cost of buttonholes, and reducing the hand labor, various buttonhole machines and attachments to sewing machines have been devised. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A friend of mine was the other day cheapening some trifles at a shopkeeper's, and after a few words they agreed on a price. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
Editor: Margaret