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Thesaurus: penny-pinching
giving or spending with reluctance
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Definitions
- adj. giving or spending with reluctance
- n. extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
- j:57/n:43 n extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily v spend money frugally; spend as little as possible s giving or spending with reluctance