inexpensively

adverb

as in cheaply

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Recent Examples of inexpensively The idea is to prepare educators more quickly and inexpensively. — Gail Richmond, The Conversation, 4 Aug. 2025 While secondary payloads can fly with many launch providers, none offer transportation as frequently or inexpensively as SpaceX rideshare. — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026 It can either be managed inexpensively in doctors’ offices and clinics — or at orders of magnitude greater expense in ERs and hospitals. — Eric Snoey, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025 Alternatives to money transfer apps Mobile apps like Wise and Remitly have emerged to enable users to transfer funds quickly and inexpensively via a user-friendly interface. — Andreina Rodriguez,maya Benjamin, CNBC, 21 Aug. 2025 To this new arena of few big, let alone original, hits; to a place where expensive corporatized storytelling could hold no candle to the quick-turn, inexpensively made short videos young people watched or the quick-turn, inexpensively made long podcasts older people listened to. — Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 12 Dec. 2025 Second, California doesn’t build anything inexpensively and efficiently. — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 24 Oct. 2025 That seemingly small temperature difference, along with other features of the YBCO, will permit much smaller magnets that could be manufactured more quickly and inexpensively, according to Commonwealth. — Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inexpensively
  1. cheaply
  2. economically
  3. poorly
  4. frugally
  5. sparingly
Adverb
  • Today, researchers can access almost every bit of knowledge about a specialized topic, instantly; work globally with hundreds of scientists; sequence genomes cheaply; and run models on powerful supercomputers.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 3 July 2026
  • What Hempstead’s residents won that night was the right to build cheaply and fast.
    — Jonathan Tower, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of cheaply
Adverb
  • Man oppressed woman legally, economically, socially, educationally, morally, professionally and religiously.
    — Brian DeLay, Mercury News, 4 July 2026
  • That was not enough for investors worried about free cash flow and Meta’s reliance on a narrow, economically sensitive revenue stream.
    — Alexa LoMonaco, CNBC, 3 July 2026
Definition of economically
Adverb
  • Building collapses are common in Pakistan, where construction standards are often poorly enforced.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 1 July 2026
  • After all, even with the growing demands of an aging population and increases in intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs), larger numbers of these jobs are already poorly paid.
    — Gene Sperling, Time, 1 July 2026
Definition of poorly
Adverb
  • The family lived frugally, Ferguson said, since Good’s partner sold a company and didn’t work as Good attended graduate school online.
    — PJ Green, Kansas City Star, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Perdue has lived a double life—having access to immense privilege and money from two business empires, while holding down a regular job and living frugally.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025
Definition of frugally
Adverb
  • The pros who develop these products tend to use them sparingly.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 30 June 2026
  • In an efficient, effective work culture, meetings are used sparingly and with intention.
    — Shani Harmon, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
Definition of sparingly

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“Inexpensively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inexpensively. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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