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scrimp together

scrimp together verb: to amass in small amounts by virtue of frugality.

Verb

scrimp together (third-person singular simple present scrimps together, present participle scrimping together, simple past and past participle scrimped together)

  1. (transitive) To amass in small amounts by virtue of frugality.
    • the families I had spoken with were betting their futures on education, with even relatively poor farmer families scrimping together money from here and there with their children’s futures in mind. This concern cut across class, with everyone feeling the pinch.2020 March 13, Sara Smith, “2. Birth and the Territorial Body”, in Intimate Geopolitics. Love, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues...

Synonyms of scrimp together

Forms of scrimp together

third-person singular presentscrimps together
present participlescrimping together
past participlescrimped together
pastscrimped together

Questions about scrimp together

What does scrimp together mean?
Scrimp together means to amass in small amounts by virtue of frugality.
What part of speech is scrimp together?
Scrimp together is a verb.
What is the past tense of scrimp together?
The past tense of scrimp together is scrimped together.

Words near scrimp together in the dictionary

  1. scrimmagings
  2. scrimmed
  3. scrimming
  4. scrimp
  5. scrimp and save
  6. scrimp together
  7. scrimped
  8. scrimped together
  9. scrimper
  10. scrimpers
  11. scrimpier

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