Cheap Definition–adjective | 1. | costing very little; relatively low in price; inexpensive: a cheap dress. |
| 2. | costing little labor or trouble: Words are cheap. |
| 3. | charging low prices: a very cheap store. |
| 4. | of little account; of small value; mean; shoddy: cheap conduct; cheap workmanship. |
| 5. | embarrassed; sheepish: He felt cheap about his mistake. |
| 6. | obtainable at a low rate of interest: when money is cheap. |
| 7. | of decreased value or purchasing power, as currency depreciated due to inflation. |
| 8. | stingy; miserly: He's too cheap to buy his own brother a cup of coffee. |
–adverb | 9. | at a low price; at small cost: He is willing to sell cheap. |
—Idioms| 10. | cheap at twice the price, exceedingly inexpensive: I found this old chair for eight dollars—it would be cheap at twice the price. |
| 11. | on the cheap, Informal. inexpensively; economically: She enjoys traveling on the cheap. |
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Seat Definition–noun | 1. | something designed to support a person in a sitting position, as a chair, bench, or pew; a place on or in which one sits. |
| 2. | the part of a chair, sofa, or the like, on which one sits. |
| 3. | the part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks. |
| 4. | the part of the garment covering it: the seat of one's pants. |
| 5. | a manner of or posture used in sitting, as on a horse. |
| 6. | something on which the base of an object rests. |
| 8. | a place in which something belongs, occurs, or is established; site; location. |
| 9. | a place in which administrative power or the like is centered: the seat of the government. |
| 10. | a part of the body considered as the place in which an emotion or function is centered: The heart is the seat of passion. |
| 11. | the office or authority of a king, bishop, etc.: the episcopal seat. |
| 12. | a space in which a spectator or patron may sit; accommodation for sitting, as in a theater or stadium. |
| 13. | right of admittance to such a space, esp. as indicated by a ticket. |
| 14. | a right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body: to hold a seat in the senate. |
| 15. | a right to the privileges of membership in a stock exchange or the like. |
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| 16. | to place on a seat or seats; cause to sit down. |
| 17. | to usher to a seat or find a seat for: to be seated in the front row.
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| 18. | to have seats for; accommodate with seats: a theater that seats 1200 people. |
| 19. | to put a seat on or into (a chair, garment, etc.). |
| 20. | to install in a position or office of authority, in a legislative body, etc. |
| 21. | to fit (a valve) with a seat. |
| 22. | to attach to or place firmly in or on something as a base: Seat the telescope on the tripod. |
–verb (used without object) | 23. | (of a cap, valve, etc.) to be closed or in proper position: Be sure that the cap of the dipstick seats. |
—Idiom| 24. | by the seat of one's pants, using experience, instinct, or guesswork. |
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