bargain counter

noun

1. a counter or area in a retail store where merchandise is sold at reduced prices.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bargain counter¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

The 1917 California insurance plan was attacked for offering treatment “at bargain counter prices.”

From The New Yorker

What I learned from Pauline was that most of it came by way of the bargain counter.

From Project Gutenberg

"I'm afraid you were buying shopworn and second-hand articles," I retorted; "or you may have gone to some bargain counter where they make a specialty of ninety-eight and forty-nine cent goods."

From Project Gutenberg

Her little brain travels from the pantry to the table, from the tea table to the children's bath tub; its widest circuit is the millinery store and the bargain counter.

From Project Gutenberg

And then he read aloud from them, a bit of politics, an advertisement, lines from the bargain counter, as if to show that one touch of shopping makes the whole world kin.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• competitive
• economical
• low-cost
• low-priced
• reasonable