In English, to express the word FOR SOME THING WITH A cheap price, SHOULD I USE cheap or economy? ?

Question

In English, to express the word FOR SOME THING WITH A cheap price, SHOULD I USE cheap or economy?
SOME TEACHER OR ANY OF NATIVE ENGLISH HELP ME PLEASE?
A PHRASE want to do is; CHEAP HOTELS, AND, economic hotels, what is more correct?

Answer 1

"Cheap hotel" is grammatically correct, but it sounds like a bad hotel. "Cheap" often means that something has a low price because it is not very good. Maybe the hotel has bugs in it or maybe prostitutes use it.



"Inexpensive hotel" is also grammatically correct and it makes the hotel sound like a nice hotel that has a good price.



"Economic hotel" is not grammatically correct.



"Economical hotel" is grammatically correct, but people don't use that word as often as "inexpensive".



"Economy hotel" is grammatically correct, but "inexpensive" sounds better. "Economy" can also be used as a noun, so it will sound incorrect to some people.



"Affordable hotel" and "budget hotel" are grammatically correct and sound good.



If you want it to sound like a nice hotel with a good price, use "inexpensive", "budget" or "affordable". If you want it to sound like a bad hotel with a low price, use "cheap".



By the way, it's good that you are asking the question. If you don't know how to say something, it's smart to ask someone who speaks the language. A lot of people don't ask questions and they make bad mistakes. There used to be a store next to my house that had a really funny name, because the owners didn't ask anyone how to say the name correctly in English. It was called "A Video Are Us".

Answer 2

It's all about the context. Often when people say cheap hotels, it's derogatory, implying something seedy or unclean because the range of hotels is so different. A cheap airline ticket is a good thing because virtually all airplanes are the same. You have first class and "economy," and you can get the economy fare really cheap sometimes. "Economy" is the incorrect word form in that usage, but is used sort of slangily for "economical." I'm sorry if this is confusing. It's just depends on what you want to imply. We have a lot of words to choose from. Cheap, affordable, economical, inexpensive, modest, bargain, etc.

Answer 3

Do not use the word 'cheap' for a hotel (unless you mean it is a really bad hotel) because 'cheap' has a double meaning of low price and low quality. You could say the hotel is an economical (NOT economic), inexpensive, affordable, or budget hotel. The expression 'economy hotel' is sometimes used in commercials, but it doesn't sound very good.



Feliz ano novo!

Answer 4

Cheap has a bad connotation, it calls to mind drunks and prostitutes.

Economy hotel is better. Economic is a different part of speech. (Staying at an economy hotel is an economic approach to a vacation.)

Inexpensive, moderately priced, and budget mean the same thing but sound nicer.

Answer 5

Neither is preferred. The term to use when you mean 'cheap' is 'low cost.' This is because there are other meanings for the word 'cheap.' The same is true for the word 'economic' ... although you will see the word economic used more in journalism (newspaper, radio, TV, on line) but that doesn't make it correct.

Answer 6

You can't say economic, but you can say economical. Inexpensive works, as well as bargain, and cost-effective. It depends on what you are describing as being cheap - using your example, you could say in inexpensive hotel. If you're talking about an item you would buy at a store (ie. clothing) you could say it was a bargain.

Answer 7

A term often used for hotels is "budget hotels".

Answer 8

Budget sounds much better than cheap.



Cheap is also a derogatory term in English that means low-quality.

Answer 9

Hi. You could use cheap, economical, inexpensive or affordable. They could all work.



All of this is relative though...what's affordable for you, might be expensive for someone else. Everyone's income and budget is different.

Answer 10

Cheap. The economy is the political, finacial, buisness, enviromental state of the country, economic is something that is helpful to one of these, not to you

Answer 11

economical hotel

Answer 12

Inexpensive

Economic

Low-price(d)



Check a thesaurus.

Answer 13

Cheap inplies "inferior"; if you mean a good value, use "inexpensive" or

"value-priced"...GL!

Answer 14

Cheap, or inexpensive.

Answer 15

inexpensive . . . .



Dan in Miami

Answer 16

cheap