nickel-and-dime - definition, thesaurus and related words from WordNet-Online

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Adjective nickel-and-dime has 2 senses

nickel-and-dime, small-time - of minor importance; "a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room"; "a small-time actor"
Antonyms: important, of import (indirect, via unimportant)
nickel-and-dime - low-paying; "a nickel-and-dime job"
Antonym: expensive (indirect, via cheap)

Verb nickel-and-dime has 2 senses

penny-pinch, nickel-and-dime - spend money frugally; spend as little as possible
--₁ is one way to spend, expend, drop
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
nickel-and-dime - accumulate gradually; "she nickeled-and-dimed together a small house for her family"
--₂ is one way to scrape, scrape up, come up
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something