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penny-pinching
 
Adjective penny-pinching has 1 sense
  1. cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching - giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"
    Antonym: generous (indirect, via stingy)
Noun penny-pinching has 1 sense
  1. parsimony, parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching - extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
    --1 is a kind of frugality, frugalness
Verb penny-pinch has 1 sense
  1. penny-pinch, nickel-and-dime - spend money frugally; spend as little as possible
    --1 is one way to spend, expend, drop
    Sample sentence:
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