Cheap and Spare

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Cheap adjective - Giving or sharing as little as possible.

Usage example: a cheap coworker who never contributes to the collections taken up in the office

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Spare and cheap are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Spare" instead an adjective "Cheap".

Nearby Words: cheapen, cheaply, cheapness

Spare adjective - Giving or sharing as little as possible.

Usage example: a man who is kind and gentle but definitely spare of speech

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Cheap and spare are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Cheap" instead an adjective "Spare".

Nearby Words: spar, sparing, spared, sparely

Then the baffled staff realizes it's the real Eva when she drives away with the car, because spare Jaguars don't come cheap (expecially because it's out of production);

Source: Your Costume Needs Work
Notable for being made on the cheap out of spare parts from Voyager, Galileo, Ulysses, and Mariner 9.

Source: Useful Notes / NASA
Cheap Costume: Peter's first costume that he wore to the wrestling match well... it looks like something a high-school student would make in his spare time.

Source: Film / Spider-Man

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