cash-starved
Adjective
Meaning
cash-starved (comparative more cash-starved, superlative most cash-starved)
Having little money; poor
Synonym: cash-strapped
Examples
Among the suggestions made to the commission, the council members said small scale enterprises were cash-starved even prior to the onset of the pandemic.
Time and again, manufacturers today only put their manuals in their option-barren penalty boxes, only to swiftly cancel those manual transmissions when they don’t sell, because even cash-starved drivers have alternatives out there.
Cash-starved California needs money but foregoes billions of dollars each year because of provisions in the tax code that allow some people and companies to shift their bills to the public.