Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Involving or paying only a small amount of money.
- adjective Minor; small-time.
- intransitive verb To spend very little money.
- intransitive verb To drain or destroy bit by bit, especially financially.
- intransitive verb To accumulate in small amounts.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective informal Trivial; unimportant; petty.
- adjective informal Involving only small amounts of money; small-time.
- transitive verb To harass or annoy with petty demands or for trivial reasons
- transitive verb informal To weaken or impair gradually or by small steps.
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- adjective Alternative spelling of
nickel and dime . - verb Alternative spelling of
nickel and dime .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective low-paying
- verb accumulate gradually
- verb spend money frugally; spend as little as possible
- adjective of minor importance
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Examples
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The nickel-and-dime revenue stream, fed by an overbrimming pool of musical talent, gave birth to the chitlin' circuit, a network of venues where black performers played one-night stands during segregation.
On the Midnight Special Eddie Dean 2011
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Management also had fiduciary reasons to nickel-and-dime its editorial and community maintenance costs.
How AOL—Aka Facebook 1.0—Blew Its Lead Jesse Kornbluth 2012
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Leaving off a month saved $7 billion, and it was the first in a series of nickel-and-dime cuts: Leadership also sacrificed health insurance subsidies for layoff victims to continue coverage through COBRA, saving $7 billion, and a Senate deal to cut $25 per week from every unemployment check saved $6 billion.
Congress Will Have 7 Days To Reauthorize Jobless Aid; It Took 50 Last Time The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Leaving off a month saved $7 billion, and it was the first in a series of nickel-and-dime cuts: Leadership also sacrificed health insurance subsidies for layoff victims to continue coverage through COBRA, saving $7 billion, and a Senate deal to cut $25 per week from every unemployment check saved $6 billion.
Congress Will Have 7 Days To Reauthorize Jobless Aid; It Took 50 Last Time The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Leaving off a month saved $7 billion, and it was the first in a series of nickel-and-dime cuts: Leadership also sacrificed health insurance subsidies for layoff victims to continue coverage through COBRA, saving $7 billion, and a Senate deal to cut $25 per week from every unemployment check saved $6 billion.
Congress Will Have 7 Days To Reauthorize Jobless Aid; It Took 50 Last Time The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Test car, a 2009 S with automatic transmission and lots of nickel-and-dime color and trim charges (such as $100 for getting the top in denim blue instead of some other color), came to $31,550.
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Leaving off a month saved $7 billion, and it was the first in a series of nickel-and-dime cuts: Leadership also sacrificed health insurance subsidies for layoff victims to continue coverage through COBRA, saving $7 billion, and a Senate deal to cut $25 per week from every unemployment check saved $6 billion.
Congress Will Have 7 Days To Reauthorize Jobless Aid; It Took 50 Last Time The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Almost inevitably, governments have moved to defend the Church and to nickel-and-dime its victims.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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Leaving off a month saved $7 billion, and it was the first in a series of nickel-and-dime cuts: Leadership also sacrificed health insurance subsidies for layoff victims to continue coverage through COBRA, saving $7 billion, and a Senate deal to cut $25 per week from every unemployment check saved $6 billion.
Congress Will Have 7 Days To Reauthorize Jobless Aid; It Took 50 Last Time Arthur Delaney 2010
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Leaving off a month saved $7 billion, and it was the first in a series of nickel-and-dime cuts: Leadership also sacrificed health insurance subsidies for layoff victims to continue coverage through COBRA, saving $7 billion, and a Senate deal to cut $25 per week from every unemployment check saved $6 billion.
Congress Will Have 7 Days To Reauthorize Jobless Aid; It Took 50 Last Time The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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