PENNY-PINCHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does penny-pinching mean? 

• PENNY-PINCHING (noun)
  The noun PENNY-PINCHING has 1 sense:

1. extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

  Familiarity information: PENNY-PINCHING used as a noun is very rare.

• PENNY-PINCHING (adjective)
  The adjective PENNY-PINCHING has 1 sense:

1. giving or spending with reluctance

  Familiarity information: PENNY-PINCHING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PENNY-PINCHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

parsimoniousness; parsimony; penny-pinching; thrift

Hypernyms ("penny-pinching" is a kind of...):

frugality; frugalness (prudence in avoiding waste)

Derivation:

penny-pinching (giving or spending with reluctance)

• PENNY-PINCHING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Giving or spending with reluctance

Synonyms:

cheeseparing; close; near; penny-pinching; skinny

Context example:

a penny-pinching miserly old man

Similar:

stingy; ungenerous (unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.))

Derivation:

penny-pinching (extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily)