penny-pinching 

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n. parsimoniousness��parsimony��thrift
a. cheeseparing��close��near��skinny

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1. What's more, the penny-pinching has nothing much to do with the fact that Britain is skint.
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2. That's changing now, as Chinese demand slows at the same time that consumers world-wide start penny-pinching.
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3. This latest outbreak of unseemly penny-pinching is symptomatic of a governmental tin ear when it comes to the armed forces.
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n.
  1. extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
  2. giving or spending with reluctance

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narrowness penny-pinching pettiness scaliness smallness stinginess
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