scrimped
past simple and past participle ofscrimp
| 单词 | scrimped |
| 释义 | scrimped past simple and past participle ofscrimp scrimp verb[I] uk/skrɪmp/us/skrɪmp/tosavemoneybyspendingless than isnecessarytoreachanacceptablestandard: There is ariskthat the debt-riddenairlinemay betemptedto scrimponmaintenanceorsecurity. scrimp and save If you scrimp andsave, youmanagetoliveon very littlemoneyinordertopayfor something: I've been scrimping andsavingallyeartopayforourholiday. Saving money
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Budgeting money Examplesofscrimpedscrimped In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Those people havescrimpedand saved for their old age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Havingscrimpedand saved this money ourselves, we then need to use it to good purpose. FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English We are talking about men and women who have worked,scrimped, saved and struggled all their lives for a future better than this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The trade unions know how often the dockyards havescrimpedand saved in the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They will already havescrimpedand saved to accrue £50, and then £60, and now find that for a normal family application they will have to pay £300. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Sugar-beet has cost the nation an immense sum at a time when the outlay on running village schools has beenscrimped. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They havescrimpedand saved all their working lives for their retirement and for the possibility of enjoying that period of their lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Then there are others who havescrimpedand saved all their lives, only to find that their thrift is being penalised. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 What happened to those whoscrimpedand saved and gave up holidays, smoking and drinking to manage to save a little? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 In my constituency—which is predominantly elderly and middle-class—most people have little in the way of savings, but have worked hard all their lives andscrimpedand saved for their retirement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They are people who havescrimpedand saved, who have been careful over the years and who find sudden and violent increases in rates a terribly heavy burden for them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 There is one important group of old-age pensioners for whom no relief has been announced today—those who havescrimpedand saved to pay for their retirement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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