Word.ws English Dictionary

scrimping together

scrimping together is the present participle and gerund of scrimp together.

Meaning of scrimp together

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...

Questions about scrimping together

What is scrimping together the present participle and gerund of?
Scrimping together is the present participle and gerund of scrimp together.

Words near scrimping together in the dictionary

  1. scrimpily
  2. scrimpiness
  3. scrimping
  4. scrimping bar
  5. scrimping bars
  6. scrimping together
  7. scrimpingly
  8. scrimpings
  9. scrimple
  10. scrimpled
  11. scrimples

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: scrimping together (page history and authors); scrimp together (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “scrimping together.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/scrimping_together. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.