Meanings
- not comparableOffered for sale or rent at a lower than usual rate.
Sometimes cut-rate airfares are available because the seat would otherwise go empty.
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Cut-rate first class return fares are again on offer for weekend travel between London and Glasgow or Edinburgh until March 25; compared with the ordinary fare of £10 16s, £7 10s is the Saturday price of a first class return between Euston and Glasgow, while £7 7s 6d, instead of £10 13s, buys a first class return on Saturdays between Edinburgh Waverley and Kings Cross ...
1961 January, “News in Brief”, in Trains Illustrated, page 10Synonyms: discount
- broadlynot comparableCheaply made.
Near-synonyms: second-rate, third-rate, fourth-rate, fifth-rate
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For this jobsite, we'll have none of those shoddy, cut-rate materials, please. Send us the good stuff for this job.
Synonyms: discount, second-rate, third-rate, fourth-rate, fifth-rate · Antonyms: first-rate
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOffered for sale or rent at a lower than usual rate.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivecosting less than standard price
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
German herabgesetzt, Billig-
- herabgesetztoffered at a lower than usual rate
- Billig-offered at a lower than usual rate
Swedish lågpris-
- lågpris-offered at a lower than usual rate
Cite this entry
cut-rate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cut-rate
“cut-rate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cut-rate. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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