on the cheap

Example Sentences

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Their business of connecting merchant and consumer banks to facilitate transactions in exchange for a fee could be at risk if AI agents can suddenly perform a similar service on the cheap.

From The Wall Street Journal

He said they could stay in his lodge and encouraged Kaye to buy presents from a friend who could get things on the cheap.

From BBC

While crypto prices have recovered from last week’s lows, there still seems to be no rush to pick up coins on the cheap, IG analyst Chris Beauchamp said in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal

“While cryptocurrency prices have managed to bounce from last week’s lows, there still seems no rush to pick up coins on the cheap. Gold’s recovery back above $5000 threatens to stymie any crypto rebound before it even gets going,” said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at IG.

From MarketWatch

The schemes had been a way of "widening motorways on the cheap", King said, but that they were a "failed experiment" which were "not really working on any level".

From BBC