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Textual thesaurus for "penny-pinching"

(adj) cheeseparing, close, near, skinny

giving or spending with reluctance

our cheeseparing administration; very close (or near) with his money; a penny-pinching miserly old man


(noun) parsimoniousness, parsimony, thrift

extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily