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lowpriced

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lowpriced (comparative more lowpriced, superlative most lowpriced)

  1. Rare spelling of low-priced.
    • 1916, Peter W. Dykema, “The Spread of the Community Music Idea”, in The Annals of the American Academy, page 219:
      Free concerts by bands and orchestras during the summer season; free or lowpriced concerts by bands and orchestras, popular priced opera, free organ recitals during the winter; lectures on music with copious illustrations, concerts by school organizations, open demonstrations of the wonderful possibilities of mechanical music producers; the use of these same instruments in countless homes—these are all indications of the tremendous development of opportunities for even the lowliest to hear all the music he desires.
    • 1945, The Magazine of Wall Street and Business Analyst:
      Output of lowpriced cigars, to be true, is now expanding sharply but mainly at the expense of the higher priced brands, a fact which has been creating divergent production trends among leading cigar makers.
    • 1966 August, Ronald E. Frank, “Use of Transformations”, in Journal of Marketing Research, volume 3, number 3, page 251:
      Car ownership was characterized by a multichotomous classification that started with a 1 for no ownership, 2 for households owning a lowpriced car, etc.
    • 1972, F.A. Gibson, "Export and Import of Shellfish 1961 - 1970.", Fishery Leaflet No. 38., An Roinn Talmhaiochta Agus Iascaigh (Department of Agriculture and Fisheries), page 3.
      It was £272 per ton in 1961 and £424 per ton in 1970, but in 1966 it had reached a peak of £988 per ton, when its content consisted of more luxury items and fewer lowpriced ones (Table 3).
    • 1998 February 16, Wouter Maréchal, “harp advice”, in alt.music.harmonica[1] (Usenet):
      Hohner has a lowpriced new one, the Big River Harp, as good as the well known Marine Bands.
    • 1998 December 17, macdiarmid, “Does Baroness Thatcher know what she is dealing with?”, in uk.politics.misc[2] (Usenet):
      You have explained away the point that lowpriced goods aimed at pensioners were taken by ethnics then re-priced for the same social group.
    • 2001 June 7, ralph, “Bush parenting skills”, in alt.tv.pol-incorrect[3] (Usenet):
      In canada, where they call pop pop, there used to be a lowpriced generic named 'canadian cola' which was an excellent coke clone.