penny-pinching

pen ny-pinch ing |ˈpɛni ˌpɪntʃɪŋ | ▶adjective unwilling to spend or share money; miserly; mean. ▶noun unwillingness to spend or share money. DERIVATIVES pen ny-pinch er noun

penny-pinching

penny-pinching ▶adjective unwilling to spend money; miserly: penny-pinching governments with a utilitarian approach to the arts. ▶noun [ mass noun ] unwillingness to spend money. DERIVATIVES penny-pincher noun

penny-pinching

penny-pinching adjective Zane's penny-pinching aunt gave him five dollars as a wedding gift: mean, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, close-fisted, cheeseparing, grasping, Scroogelike; informal stingy, mingy, tight, tightfisted, money-grubbing; formal penurious; archaic near. ANTONYMS generous.

penny-pinching

penny-pinching adjective mean, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, close-fisted, cheese-paring, penurious, scrimping, grasping, greedy, avaricious, Scrooge-like, ungenerous, illiberal, close; informal stingy, mingy, tight, tight-fisted, money-grubbing, money-grabbing; vulgar slang tight-arsed; archaic near. ANTONYMS generous, liberal, munificent.

penny-pinching

p é nny-p ì nch ing 形容詞 名詞 U ｟くだけて 非難して ｠けち (な )(mean ), 出し惜しみをする .p é nny-p ì nch er 名詞