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- noun Plural form of
tightwad .
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Examples
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"High money planners are more likely to score high on scales measuring frugality, impulse buying, coupon proneness, value consciousness and to be classified as 'tightwads' rather than 'spendthrifts,'" the authors write.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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"High money planners are more likely to score high on scales measuring frugality, impulse buying, coupon proneness, value consciousness and to be classified as 'tightwads' rather than 'spendthrifts,'" the authors write.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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"High money planners are more likely to score high on scales measuring frugality, impulse buying, coupon proneness, value consciousness and to be classified as 'tightwads' rather than 'spendthrifts,'" the authors write.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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Even a precocious third-grader can see why even fiscal tightwads should make an exception for spending that ultimately brings in more money than it costs.
Ian Fletcher: Why the Budget Is the Wrong Thing to Fight About Ian Fletcher 2011
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Even a precocious third-grader can see why even fiscal tightwads should make an exception for spending that ultimately brings in more money than it costs.
Ian Fletcher: Why the Budget Is the Wrong Thing to Fight About Ian Fletcher 2011
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Even a precocious third-grader can see why even fiscal tightwads should make an exception for spending that ultimately brings in more money than it costs.
Ian Fletcher: Why the Budget Is the Wrong Thing to Fight About Ian Fletcher 2011
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People who think of themselves as either tightwads or spendthrifts supposedly are less happy than people in between.
Tightwadism, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Even a precocious third-grader can see why even fiscal tightwads should make an exception for spending that ultimately brings in more money than it costs.
Ian Fletcher: Why the Budget Is the Wrong Thing to Fight About Ian Fletcher 2011
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Even a precocious third-grader can see why even fiscal tightwads should make an exception for spending that ultimately brings in more money than it costs.
Ian Fletcher: Why the Budget Is the Wrong Thing to Fight About Ian Fletcher 2011
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"It says a minimum of $20,000 but I'll start at [$10,000] because you're a bunch of tightwads," Ms. Stone told the crowd as she attempted to gain interest in a Marina Abramovic photograph.
White Monkeys, Green Faces At Colorful Hamptons Benefit 2010
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