Penny-pinching - definition, pronunciation

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Amer.   American pronunciation of the word penny-pinching
Brit.  |ˈpenɪpɪntʃɪŋ|  British pronunciation of the word penny-pinching

noun

- extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily (syn: parsimony, thrift)

adjective

- giving or spending with reluctance (syn: cheeseparing, close, near, skinny)
a penny-pinching miserly old man

Extra examples

She is a penny-pinching skinflint.

...the team's owner is a skinflint whose penny-pinching ways keeps the team from acquiring any real talent...

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