Cheapen

(v. t.) To ask the price of; to bid, bargain, or chaffer for.

(a.) To beat down the price of; to lessen the value of; to depreciate.

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• He contrived so many little tools to cheapen the work that he made lots of money. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• I must look into that: it would cheapen the repairs. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It can be procured in almost any drug store, and since 1874 a new process in its manufacture has cheapened it in price and placed it within the reach of all. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Although it cost $33,000,000 and required seven years for completion, the labor-saving cableways greatly cheapened its cost and shortened the time of its construction. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The use of electric motors has greatly extended, cheapened, and expedited the street car service. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• And now since 1880, the chemists are pushing aside the vegetable processes, and substituting mineral processes, by which tanning is still further shortened and cheapened. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I have been set down as tainted and should be cheapened to them all the same. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It has so cheapened steel that it now competes with iron in price. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• While the process of manufacture was cheapened, the newer craftsmen wisely held to the art standards of the old masters. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In 1882, however, a machine for doing this was invented, thereby dispensing with the old hand method and cheapening the operation. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Late improvements in the manufacture of inks are due to the discovery and cheapening of substances which can be used in preparing them. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• Another was a cheapening of school-books. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One of the incidents which caused a very great cheapening was that, when we started, one of the important processes had to be done by experts. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• For cheapening the cost of buttonholes, and reducing the hand labor, various buttonhole machines and attachments to sewing machines have been devised. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A friend of mine was the other day cheapening some trifles at a shopkeeper's, and after a few words they agreed on a price. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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