cut-price

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ˌcut-ˈprice (also cut-rate especially American EnglishAmE) adjectiveadj

1 CHEAPcut-price goods or services are cheaper than usual 〔货品或服务〕减价的，削价的

cut-price toys

减价的玩具

a travel operator offering cut-price deals

正在推出优惠活动的一家旅行社

2 BBTCHEAPa cut-price shop sells goods at reduced prices 〔商店〕廉价的，出售折价商品的

cut-price supermarkets

折价超市

Examples from the Corpus

cut-price• Rather than setting up their own discount arm, food retailers could simply sell cut-price brands in their superstores.• Oxford felt like a transatlantic liner in the age of bucket shops and cut-price charters.• By day, a long street in the Nipponbashi area is lined with cut-price electronics stores.• Fruit is fairly inexpensive in Japan because they buy cut-price oranges and apples from South Africa.• Or they can pick up cut-price plant and equipment, or computer systems.• Tottenham Court Road is the best place for cut-price stereo equipment.• For example, there is the restricted access to cut-price supermarket shopping that many disabled older people suffer from.

From Longman Business Dictionary

cut-priceˈcut-price (also cut-rate) adjectiveadj [only before a noun]

1selling products or services at extremely low prices

Britain’s biggest cut-price supermarket chain

2costing much less than other products of the same type

petrol stations selling cut-price petrol

Families are snapping up cut-price holidays as travel agents slash the cost of trips to the sun.

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