Meanings
prepositional phrase
- Having little money, or limited financial resources.
In the succeeding years I paid many more visits to Scotland; this was made easy even for those of modest means, by that wonderful institution, the "Inverness Tourist." For £3 one could get a ticket from London to Inverness and back with a wide choice of routes, […].
1957 July 29, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 496
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