nickel-and-dime

Meanings

adjectivenickel-and-dime (not comparable)

alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of nickel and dime.

verbnickel-and-dime (third-person singular simple present nickel-and-dimes or nickels-and-dimes, present participle nickel-and-diming or (US) nickeling-and-diming or (UK) nickelling-and-diming, simple past and past participle nickel-and-dimed or (US) nickeled-and-dimed or (UK) nickelled-and-dimed)

present singular third person nickel-and-dimes · present singular third person nickels-and-dimes · participle present nickel-and-diming · US participle present nickeling-and-diming · UK participle present nickelling-and-diming · participle past nickel-and-dimed · past nickel-and-dimed · US participle past nickeled-and-dimed · US past nickeled-and-dimed · UK participle past nickelled-and-dimed · UK past nickelled-and-dimed

alternativeAlternative spelling of nickel and dime.
The business people began to nickel-and-dime him, no water cooler in the production office, that sort of thing.
1998, Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Simon & Schuster, page 358
1 more example
Advocates for the poor have long resisted various cities’ efforts to crack down on bags — whether by charging fees or banning them — as a regressive tax on shoppers who can’t afford to be nickel-and-dimed every time they get groceries.
2016 May 5, “How New York Can Put an End to the Plastic Bag”, in The New York Times