as in cheap
costing little
a cut-price purse that looked like a much more expensive brand
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Recent Examples of cut-price
Hudson-Odoi will be missed in crucial run-in Hudson-Odoi has established himself as a key figure with Forest since joining for the cut-price fee of just £3million (now $4.06m).
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Paul Taylor, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026
Ukraine has pioneered the development of cut-price drone killers, some of which cost a few thousand dollars, that have rewritten the air defense rule book.
—Hanna Arhirova The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2026
The tech industry has long hawked cut-price software and hardware to students in hopes of turning them into lifetime customers.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Dec. 2025
The changes could therefore affect the options of those planning their vacations, especially those who have come to rely on Spirit's cut-price fares.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
In a new effort to revive the program, aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, which has built 11 of NASA's 22 Mars spacecraft over the years, is proposing a cut-price, streamlined mission that would use a smaller lander, a smaller Mars ascent vehicle and a smaller Earth entry system.
—Andrew Jones, Space.com, 8 July 2025
In one sign that Tesla appears to be losing ground to cut-price Chinese brands, sales at China's SAIC zoomed up 54% in April, according to the ACEA figures.
—CBS News, 27 May 2025
Paul Taylor, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2026
Ukraine has pioneered the development of cut-price drone killers, some of which cost a few thousand dollars, that have rewritten the air defense rule book.
—Hanna Arhirova The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2026
The tech industry has long hawked cut-price software and hardware to students in hopes of turning them into lifetime customers.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 18 Dec. 2025
The changes could therefore affect the options of those planning their vacations, especially those who have come to rely on Spirit's cut-price fares.
—Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
In a new effort to revive the program, aerospace giant Lockheed Martin, which has built 11 of NASA's 22 Mars spacecraft over the years, is proposing a cut-price, streamlined mission that would use a smaller lander, a smaller Mars ascent vehicle and a smaller Earth entry system.
—Andrew Jones, Space.com, 8 July 2025
In one sign that Tesla appears to be losing ground to cut-price Chinese brands, sales at China's SAIC zoomed up 54% in April, according to the ACEA figures.
—CBS News, 27 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cut-price
Adjective
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The reason all of this is happening, probably more than any other, is that clipping is cheap.—
Lane Brown,
Vulture,
15 May 2026
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Surprisingly the most expensive hairpiece so far has been Attenborough’s, which Fortune reveals was a hybrid of a cheap £20 ($26) wig at the back combined with tens of man-hours knotting individual strands of hair onto a lace front to create the centenarian’s familiar pate.—
K.J. Yossman,
Variety,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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Yes, and the research makes a solid case for trying inexpensive fixes first.—
Allison Palmer,
Miami Herald,
12 May 2026
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This was also the most inexpensive mix out of the bunch, priced at just 60 cents at the local grocery store.—
Abigail Wilt,
Southern Living,
11 May 2026
Adjective
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Multiple studies in 2024–26 have ranked San Jose as the least affordable housing market in the United States, based on comparisons of home prices to local incomes.—
James Ward,
USA Today,
15 May 2026
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This move is a recognition of a basic reality, which is that affordable housing is only as good as the ability to fill it.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
Adjective
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In a debate for the Democratic nomination for the Senate in Iowa this month, one of the moderators, Erin Murphy, asked the candidates, Josh Turek and Zach Wahls, both state legislators, a reasonable, if downbeat, question.—
Amy Davidson Sorkin,
New Yorker,
17 May 2026
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The tuition payments may be a gift presented without strings, but there are still plenty of reasonable expectations that come with a college education.—
R. Eric Thomas,
Chicago Tribune,
17 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Cut-price.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cut-price. Accessed 18 May. 2026.
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