Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inexpensive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inexpensive.
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- adjective Common misspelling of
inexpensive .
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Examples
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Accesories such as compressors are relatively unexpensive, they are not repaired anymore but authomatically replaced.
Take a Guess, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Where women are unexpensive to obtain and to maintain, many men are able to marry more than one and they do.
Polygamy: Economics vs. History, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our general government may be reduced to a very simple organization and a very unexpensive one, -- a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants."
Union and Democracy Allen Johnson 1900
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Why, then, should we not reduce our general government to a very simple organization and a very unexpensive one -- a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants?
Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty Allen Johnson 1900
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Why has the calendar, so useless to the early hordes, who only needed the alternation of night and day, as of winter and summer, become at last so indispensable, so unexpensive, so perfect?
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888
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The mode of his life at Newstead was simple and unexpensive.
Life of Lord Byron Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852 1854
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The people were tired of the arbitrary powers of their monarch, and he was disposed to abandon them; they were provoked at the expensive corruptions of the court, and he was both innocent in his manners, and unexpensive in his habits; they demanded reformation in the administration of affairs, and he placed his chief glory in yielding to the public voice.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges John Lord 1852
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A plain, unexpensive apple pudding may be made by rolling out a bit of common pie-crust, and filling it full of quartered apples; tied up in
The American Frugal Housewife Lydia Maria Francis Child 1841
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He was not rich; but his habits were simple, and, except by reason of his sickness and its consequences, unexpensive.
The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838
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When this thoroughfare should reach the western parts of the state, how easy and unexpensive a transition would it furnish to individuals and families in the unhealthy seasons of the year, from the lower country to the mountains!
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