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Definition of Cheapening
1. cheapen [v] - See also: cheapen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheapening
Literary usage of Cheapening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"Cheapening FISH; AND THE VILLAGE POST-OFFICE From <The Antiquary' MR. OLDBUCK led
the way to the sands. Upon the links or downs close to them were seen four ..."
2. The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and by Charles Knight (1874)
"... Towns—London—Increase of Houses—Supply of Food—Improved means of Communication
affecting that supply—Cheapening of the necessaries of life—Conveyance of ..."
3. A History of England and the British Empire by Arthur Donald Innes (1915)
"In no field did the cheapening of distribution and production have a more remarkable
effect than in that of literature. At cheap books the close of the ..."
4. The Origin and Progress of the American Party in Politics: Embracing a by John Hancock Lee (1855)
"... interests of both the South and North by cheapening the price of labour—The
dangerous dispositions of foreign settlers—Basis principles of the American ..."
5. Recent Economic Changes and Their Effect on the Production and Distribution by David Ames Wells (1889)
"... steel rail — Future supply of food commodities — Cheapening of iron — Displacement
of labor by machinery — Natural gas — Application of machinery to the ..."
6. The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot by Walter Bagehot, Mrs Russell Barrington (1915)
"X. THE DIFFERENT EFFECT ON TRADE OF A Cheapening OF THE PRECIOUS METALS, AND OF
A DEPRECIATION OF INCONVERTIBLE PAPER. We showed last week that neither the ..."
7. Trade and Tariffs by John Mackinnon Robertson (1908)
"The Cheapening of Food I HAVE said that what saved free trade in Britain as
against the protectionist assault after 1846 was on one hand the plain ..."
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