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Meanings of scrimp in English

Subsist on a meager allowance.

Usage of scrimp in English
1
They would get along; scrimp and save; even move to Brooklyn, maybe.
Bunker Bean
2
I'd even scrimp on lunches to buy books I wanted to read.
The Elephant Vanishes
3
And so they live beyond their means or else they scrimp and suffer.
Through the Eye of the Needle: A Romance
4
He ordered twenty cents worth and made me scrimp along on sixty cents.
Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2
5
Then we can scrimp on groceries to pay the doctor's bills.'
Finders Keepers
6
You could scrimp and save for Nancy's coming out, and then for Kathleen's.
Mother Carey's Chickens
7
But, Ma, what do you want to scrimp like that for!
Half Portions
8
But don't scrimp on the microphone: It's key to a good video, he says.
Reuters
9
Campa and her colleagues still have to scrimp and scrounge.
Wired
10
Also, some ominous comments on what armies spend and what Governments scrimp:-thatis ammunition.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 1
11
Plus, they're incredibly lightweight but don't scrimp on structural integrity.
News.com.au
12
And we bought so little, it was hard to scrimp.
The well and the mine
13
Why shouldn't she be a little extra giddy because she wouldn't have to scrimp?
The life you've imagined
14
Moss and her family scrimp a bit, but Icelanders don't do that, as a rule.
The Guardian
15
And this Levi's option doesn't scrimp on the style either, with stripes and leather trim.
Ebony
16
The manifestations and passages scarce made a scrimp volume.
Aftermath / Part second of "A Kentucky Cardinal"
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United Kingdom
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