cut\ rate

cut\ rate
I. noun
A lower price; a price less than usual.

Toys are on sale at the store for cut rates.

II. adj
Sold for a price lower than usual; selling cheap things.

If you buy cut-rate things, be sure they are good quality first.

John's brother bought a cut-rate bicycle at the second-hand store.

There is a cut-rate drug-store on the corner.


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