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penny-pinching

Speech parts

1. penny-pinching - Noun

2. penny-pinching - Adjective

3. penny-pinching - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

giving or spending with reluctance

extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

Source: WordNet

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penny pinching

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Examples

our cheeseparing administration Source: Internet

very close (or near) with his money Source: Internet

a penny-pinching miserly old man Source: Internet

A penny-pinching roadside ad salesman, Lambert launched Acheter-moins-cher—“buy cheaper”—in 1998 to aggregate products from around the web and rank them by price. Source: Internet

EU leaders clashed Thursday at a stormy summit to decide the bloc’s seven-year budget after Brexit, with bitter divisions between penny-pinching rich nations, poorer ones wanting to preserve spending and others wanting to fund grand global ambitions. Source: Internet

Americans didn't flock to the suddenly affordable Hydrox; they shunned it as cheap in every sense of the word—the kind of low-budget, fuddy-duddy knockoff favored by penny-pinching grandpas. Source: Internet

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