1 the fact of something having a low price:
The cheapness of fast food is one of its main attractions.
Politically conservative, they stood up for small shopkeepers and artisans, distrusted advertising and preferred 'quality' to cheapness and darning to new clothes.
As we have seen this inevitably led to the employment of children because of the cheapness of their labour.
Its advantages are likely to be confined to affecting the demand for and supply of labour and its relative 'cheapness' on public funds.
The photographs are poorly reproduced, reflecting the cheapness of the production, although they usually manage to show what is intended.
We did not seriously consider implementing any other mechanism since we wanted the simplicity and cheapness.
But the convenience and relative cheapness of boarding houses did have one major drawback + an almost total lack of privacy.
Because of the relative cheapness and visibility of lighting, otherwise backward cities and towns could use it to project an image of modernity while the rest of their infrastructure languished.
It is likely that the simplicity and cheapness of the technique are the reason for this increase, as well as ignoring the older debates in the literature.