Meanings
present singular third person scrimps together · participle present scrimping together · participle past scrimped together · past scrimped together
- transitiveTo 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 in Local Contexts), New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 40Synonyms: scrape together, rake together, rustle up, scratch together
Synonyms & antonyms
verbTo amass in small amounts by virtue of frugality.
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