scrimp 的 2 个定义
- to be sparing or frugal; economize: They scrimped and saved for everything they have. He spends most of his money on clothes, and scrimps on food.
- to be sparing or restrictive of or in; limit severely: to scrimp food.
- to keep on short allowance; provide sparingly for: to scrimp their elderly parents.
scrimp 近义词
economize
更多scrimp例句
- Specifically, you can wait and scrimp and scrape and pinch and save.
- Take retailer Marks and Spencer, which traditionally never scrimps on Christmas ads.
- In their communities, fewer teachers were employed and schools were scrimping on school maintenance and supplies.
- He decides instead to “scrimp and save”—and to collect aluminum cans on Capitol Hill to make up the difference.
- Also, some ominous comments on what armies spend and what Governments scrimp:—that is ammunition.
- Chrissy gazed wistfully into the glass as she fastened her yellow scrimp old white frock, and sighed.
- Mrs. Scrimp was a widow living in rather genteel style in a house and upon means left her by her late husband.
- Mrs. Scrimp was a woman of theories also, and her pet one accorded well with the aforementioned characteristic.
- She heard Mrs. Scrimp's voice in the kitchen scolding Ann for letting the bread burn in the oven.