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PURSE STRINGS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does purse strings mean?
• PURSE STRINGS (noun)
The noun PURSE STRINGS has 1 sense:
1. financial resources or support
Familiarity information: PURSE STRINGS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Financial resources or support
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Context example:
who controls the purse strings in this family?
Hypernyms ("purse strings" is a kind of...):
cash in hand; finances; funds; monetary resource; pecuniary resource (assets in the form of money)
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