Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Narrow; contracted; pinched.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
scrimp .
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Examples
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If I had a clue that this was even possible I would have saved, scrimped, but I never thought it would be.
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Marlene and I had often driven through it to admire the homes, knowing full well, no matter how we scrimped and saved, that we would have to settle for something less.
Hopefulness 2010
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Giovanni, a nurse from Italy, also scrimped and saved for a year and found the courage to travel alone for the first time to the United States to visit people she has never met!
Jay Tavare: Indian Givers Jay Tavare 2011
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Not at all – most of as working class or lower middle class kids were privately educated in parochial schools that our parents scrimped to pay for, then benefited from the public colleges in our states.
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Giovanni, a nurse from Italy, also scrimped and saved for a year and found the courage to travel alone for the first time to the United States to visit people she has never met!
Jay Tavare: Indian Givers Jay Tavare 2011
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So BP also scrimped on these costs -- even going so far as to threaten workers with job termination if they wore respirators.
Riki Ott: Will the Government Let BP Reduce Its Fines and Penalties for Deepwater? Riki Ott 2011
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So BP also scrimped on these costs -- even going so far as to threaten workers with job termination if they wore respirators.
Riki Ott: Will the Government Let BP Reduce Its Fines and Penalties for Deepwater? Riki Ott 2011
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Words are cheap and cleanup equipment is not, so the oil industry invested heavily in toxic chemical dispersants that conveniently sink oil -- out of sight, out of mind, and it scrimped and bought only the cheapest brands of booms, skimmers, and absorbent material -- and in nowhere near the quantity needed for a large mess.
Riki Ott: Will the Government Let BP Reduce Its Fines and Penalties for Deepwater? Riki Ott 2011
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Words are cheap and cleanup equipment is not, so the oil industry invested heavily in toxic chemical dispersants that conveniently sink oil -- out of sight, out of mind, and it scrimped and bought only the cheapest brands of booms, skimmers, and absorbent material -- and in nowhere near the quantity needed for a large mess.
Riki Ott: Will the Government Let BP Reduce Its Fines and Penalties for Deepwater? Riki Ott 2011
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Giovanni, a nurse from Italy, also scrimped and saved for a year and found the courage to travel alone for the first time to the United States to visit people she has never met!
Jay Tavare: Indian Givers Jay Tavare 2011
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