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What (who) is SCRIMPED - definition
Scrimped
·Impf & ·p.p. of Scrimp.
scrimp
(scrimps, scrimping, scrimped)
If you scrimp on things, you live cheaply and spend as little money as possible.
Scrimping on safety measures can be a false economy...
= skimp
VERB: V on n
Scrimpness
·noun The state of being scrimp.
Examples of use of SCRIMPED
1. Independence, self–reliance, making do with the scrimped necessities of existence.
2. They scrimped to buy a $140,000 house across the street from the Army installation.
3. Like so many others, they scrimped and saved to make this journey.
4. Her parents scrimped to send her, the brightest of their seven children, to college.
5. It penalises the hard–working middle classes who have scrimped and saved.