penny-pinching

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(disapproving) unwilling to spend money on things: this penny-pinching government * a penny-pinching approach penny-pinching noun [U]

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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penny-pinchingEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus penny-pinchingEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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