cut-rate

Adjective

cut-rate (not comparable)

1. Offered for sale or rent at a lower than usual rate.
   • Sometimes cut-rate airfares are available because the seat would otherwise go empty.
   • 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...1961 January, “News in Brief”, in Trains Illustrated, page 10

   Synonyms:

   discount

2. (broadly) Cheaply made.
   • Near-synonyms: second-rate, third-rate, fourth-rate, fifth-rate
   • 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