–adjective 3e8

1.	costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress.

2.	costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap.

3.	charging low prices: a very cheap store.

4.	of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship.

5.	embarrassed; sheepish: He felt cheap about his mistake.

6.	obtainable at a low rate of interest: when money is cheap.

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7.	of decreased value or purchasing power, as currency depreciated due to inflation.

8.	stingy; miserly: He's too cheap to buy his own brother a cup of coffee.

–adverb

9.	at a low price; at small cost: He is willing to sell cheap.

—Idioms

10.	cheap at twice the price, exceedingly inexpensive: I found this old chair for eight dollars—it would be cheap at twice the price.

11.	on the cheap, Informal. inexpensively; economically: She enjoys traveling on the cheap.

–verb (used without object)

1.	to go from one place to another, as by car, train, plane, or ship; take a trip; journey: to travel for pleasure.

2.	to move or go from one place or point to another.

3.	to proceed or advance in any way.

4.	to go from place to place as a representative of a business firm.

5.	to associate or consort: He travels in a wealthy crowd.

6.	Informal. to move with speed.

7.	to pass, or be transmitted, as light or sound.

8.	Basketball. walk (def. 9).

9.	to move in a fixed course, as a piece of mechanism.

–verb (used with object)

10.	to travel, journey, or pass through or over, as a country or road.

11.	to journey or traverse (a specified distance): We traveled a hundred miles.

12.	to cause to journey; ship: to travel logs downriver.

–noun

13.	the act of traveling; journeying, esp. to distant places: to travel to other planets.

14.	travels, a. journeys; wanderings: to set out on one's travels. b. journeys as the subject of a written account or literary work: a book of travels. c. such an account or work.

15.	the coming and going of persons or conveyances along a way of passage; traffic: an increase in travel on state roads.

16.	Machinery. a. the complete movement of a moving part, esp. a reciprocating part, in one direction, or the distance traversed; stroke. b. length of stroke.

17.	movement or passage in general: to reduce the travel of food from kitchen to table.

–adjective

18.	used or designed for use while traveling: a travel alarm clock.