cut-price

English

Adjective

cut-price (not comparable)

  1. Offered for sale at less than the normal price.
    • 1962 August, “Let's have plain speaking”, in Modern Railways, page 73:
      They are still taking any chance—the opening of the full Ashford line electric timetable is the latest instance—of stressing that two or three hours' traffic a day in trains crowded with passengers on cut-price season mileage rates does not generate enough revenue to support twenty-four hours a day the resources of men, rolling stock and track needed to cope in comfort with an ever-increasing peak passenger demand.
    • 1979 June 16, The Canberra Times, page 17, column 1:
      And the checkout chick is too busy taking money to tell you how to operate your cut-price, multi-purpose, plastic encased kitchen magician.

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