Meaning

4 senses

  1. (intransitive, obsolete)To trade; traffic; bargain; chaffer; ask the price of goods; cheapen goods.

  2. (obsolete, transitive)To bargain for; chaffer for; ask the price of; offer a price for; cheapen.

  3. (obsolete, transitive)To buy; purchase.

  4. (obsolete, transitive)To sell.

Origin

As a noun, from Middle English chep, from Old English cēap (“trade, market, value”), from

As a noun, from Middle English chep, from Old English cēap (“trade, market, value”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaup. As a verb, from Middle English chepen, from Old English ċēapian (“to buy, bargain, trade”), from Proto-West Germanic *kaupōn, from Proto-Germanic *kaupōną, a verbal derivative of *kaupô (“trader”), from Latin caupō.

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Forms

cheaps, cheaping, cheaped, cheaped

regular · Lesson

Base formcheap · to cheap
3rd person singularcheaps
Present participlecheaping
Past simplecheaped
Past participlecheaped

Tenses

cheap · cheaped · will cheap · have cheaped

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Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycheap
he, she, itcheaps

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cheaped
he, she, ithas cheaped

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cheap

Past simpleLesson

all personscheaped

Word family

1 related words
Derivedcheap out

Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
checheapencheaplycheapskatecheatB2

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