单词 | cheap rate |
释义 | > as lemmascheap rate b. transferred. (Applied to the price itself, the place where a commodity is sold, etc.) cheap fare: a fare at a lower rate than the ordinary fare; also cheap rate; also attributive. Π 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) i. i, in Wks. I. 7 He,..sells his reputation, at cheape market. 1656 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (1676) 4 The price of money falls cheaper, and the price of Land riseth dearer. 1710 W. Salmon Family Dict. (ed. 4) Pref. §7 Poor People would be furnished..with Firing..at very cheap Rates. 1721 G. Berkeley Ess. Preventing Ruine Great Brit. 9 Manufactures..set on foot in cheap parts of the Country. 1776 Monthly Rev. Aug. 162 It may..serve to convey information ‘at a cheap rate’. 1786 R. Burns Poems 26 The cheapest Lawyer's fee. 1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 434/1 Heidelberg is a very cheap place of residence. 1867 Cassell's Mag. 1 438/2 Omnibuses..for many years..were running at a cheap rate. 1878 B. Price Pol. Econ. ix To buy in the cheapest market. 1887 Peel City Guardian 28 May 5/1 To make special daily sailings from Liverpool to the Isle of Man and back at cheap fares. 1889 N.E.D. at Cheap Mod. Patronizing cheap shops. He is not a cheap tailor. 1901 Daily Chron. 12 Aug. 7/5 For trade and cheap-rate passengers. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 14 Feb. 6/2 All the ‘cheap-fare’ vehicles. 1902 Daily Chron. 26 Apr. 5/7 This is not a workman's train, but what is called a cheap fare train. 1967 Guardian 4 Jan. 5/3 During the cheap rate period (10 p.m. to 10 a.m. British clock time Monday to Saturday, and all day Sunday) the charges for an ordinary call will be reduced. < as lemmas |
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