ADJECTIVE
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giving or spending with reluctance
very close (or near) with his money
a penny-pinching miserly old man
our cheeseparing administration
NOUN
- extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
How To Use penny-pinching In A Sentence
- At companies where the downturn has not radically reduced sales, penny-pinching can help.
- All that penny-pinching means a lasting headache for the airlines.
- Local residents have accused the council of penny-pinching.
- But senior councillors have been on a penny-pinching exercise since the budget problems were first announced.
- If people are penny-pinching or petty-minded this week, naturally you won't hold back on letting them know it.
- Plastic milk crates often serve as flexible storage units for penny-pinching college students.
- Elizabeth, long cast in a golden glow by historians, appears ‘vain, irresolute, avaricious and penny-pinching,’ and driven by sexual jealousy.
- Traditionally, backpackers haven't had two baht to rub together, and joining their number has meant submitting yourself to an unremitting grind of penny-pinching international poverty.
- And who is to blame for the penny-pinching cut in garbage collections? The Sun
- She estimates that her company's penny-pinching adds about $100,000 a year to its bottom line.