Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a cheap manner; at a small price; at a low cost: as, “cheaply bought,”
  • At a low estimate of value; as of little value or importance; with depreciation or disesteem.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb At a small price; at a low value; in a common or inferior manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a cheap manner; without expending much money.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a cheap manner
  • adverb in a stingy manner
  • adverb with little expenditure of money

Etymologies

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cheap +‎ -ly

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  • JM knows that two can live as cheaply as one, for half as long.

    July 14, 2011

  • JM knows that two can live as cheaply as one, for half as long.

    July 14, 2011