From: Steve Shaw - PM
Date: 06 Oct 17 - 11:19 AM

"Cut-price" requires a hyphen.
That depends upon your dictionary. The English language seems to be moving away from the use of hyphens.

Dearie me, Nigel. Cut-price is a perfectly good synonym of cheap or bargain. It's widely used even when an actual price reduction is not indicated.
Not in any case I've ever encountered. "Cut price" (with or without a hyphen) relates to the cost of something for which the price has been 'cut'.

I've told you about being too literal before, haven't I. We are generally typing fairly informal English here, not legalese
So I can ignore your comments about whether or not a hyphen is required? (not very consistent are you?).

I'm not going to be describing a bottle of wine that cost nearly ten quid as cut-price (even when I've already stated that the price was reduced). My mates would think I'd won the lottery. I'll call my £4.60 bottle of Rioja cut-price even when Sainsbury's haven't reduced the price.
So, as I said, a very poor grip on the English language.