Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
- adjective Scrimping; reluctant to spend money; stingy; miserly; same as
cheesparing .
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- adjective
reluctant tospend money ; close-fisted - noun
reluctance to spend money;thrift orparsimony - noun Instance of extreme economy.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective giving or spending with reluctance
- noun extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
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Examples
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So there's not going to be any reason for penny-pinching, in other words.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Foreign Policy Issues Reappear Chris Weigant 2011
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So there's not going to be any reason for penny-pinching, in other words.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Foreign Policy Issues Reappear Chris Weigant 2011
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His reign was characterized as a penny-pinching, indecisive era of government, dogged by tensions between the emperor and the senatorial classes, which eventually descended into outright despotism and vice.5
Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010
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More money for defense and for war; more penny-pinching for diplomacy and foreign development.
William Astore: Our State Department: A Tiny Branch of the Pentagon William Astore 2010
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DETROIT— General Motors Co. plans to spend around $100 million to upgrade its Corvette factory in Bowling Green, Ky., people familiar with the situation said, the latest sign that auto maker's penny-pinching days are behind it.
GM to Upgrade Corvette Factory Sharon Terlep 2011
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Hopes for a full-fledged partnership between Russia and the United States failed, he would contend, not because Washington betrayed such hopes with its penny-pinching and determination to expand NATO, but because the hopes themselves were simply unrealistic.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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Washington repeatedly interrupted these operational commands with instructions about keeping money accounts and the like, reflecting the penny-pinching nature of the enterprise.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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More money for defense and for war; more penny-pinching for diplomacy and foreign development.
William Astore: Our State Department: A Tiny Branch of the Pentagon William Astore 2010
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As director of search engine optimization, Mr. Hennessey understands that penny-pinching customers may not want internet marketing services if the economy dips again.
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Years of government penny-pinching had cut the training of new air-traffic controllers, creating frequent shortages.
Sky Wars: Europe Battles to Erase Borders in the Air Daniel Michaels 2011
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