(informal) Synonym of cheaply or economically.
(informal) Too cheaply or economically, inexpensive and affordable to the point of substandard quality.
Well, if you buy things on the cheap what do you expect?
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else. Ted Rall
Affirmative action was always racial justice on the cheap. Joe Klein
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. David Chipperfield
It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock. Howard Keel
If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable. Julian Baggini
Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on scrap paper, in notebooks and tablets, on the walls in my room as a teenager, and in orange paint on the cheap white plastic blinds in my room. Roseanne Barr