penny-pinch

VERB
  1. spend money frugally; spend as little as possible
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How To Use penny-pinch In A Sentence

  • The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
  • At companies where the downturn has not radically reduced sales, penny-pinching can help.
  • Government penny-pinching is blamed for the decline in food standards.
  • And he rounded things off with a joke regarding the Scot's notoriety for stinginess and penny-pinching.
  • It seems mean and penny-pinching to me to have only one New Year in each annual cycle.
  • You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching. Times, Sunday Times
  • You know that modish new technology is being used as a cloak to disguise bad manners, laziness and penny-pinching. Times, Sunday Times
  • Owners of 43 homes - 75 per cent of the beds available - say they are being pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by a penny-pinching council that will not pay a fair price.
  • But others point to parsimony, quoting examples of penny-pinching and bare-bones operations.
  • She estimates that her company's penny-pinching adds about $100,000 a year to its bottom line.
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