cut-rate

1. 1.

   costing less than standard price

   “buying bargain-priced clothes for the children”

   “cut-rate goods”

   Synonymsbargain-pricedcut-price

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Questions about cut-rate

What does cut-rate mean?

cut-rate means "costing less than standard price".

How many syllables are in cut-rate?

cut-rate has 2 syllables: cu-t-rate. The stress falls on "cu".

What is another word for cut-rate?

Close synonyms include bargain-priced, cut-price. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cut-rate a common word?

cut-rate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.