cut-price

adjective

ˈkət-ˈprīs How to pronounce cut-price (audio)
Synonyms of cut-pricenext
chiefly British
: selling goods or services at very low prices : cut-rate
The flat was above a cut-price travel agent at the wrong end of Notting Hill …— Hamish Bowles
also : very low in price : cheap
a cut-price ticket

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Examples of cut-price in a Sentence

a cut-price purse that looked like a much more expensive brand
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Indeed, the group’s choice of India for its launch is likely a sign of its hopes that the cut-price Nothing (2a) model can encroach on Apple’s growing market share in the country. — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 5 Mar. 2024 The carmaker is the subject of a major EU antitrust investigation into its cut-price cars, with the entry-level Seagull priced at $11,000. — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1880, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cut-price was in 1880

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“Cut-price.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cut-price. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.

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