(v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.
(a.) Short; scanty; curtailed.
(n.) A pinching miser; a niggard.
Example Sentences:
(1) 5.04pm GMT Speaking of Spain, the New York Times is running a hard-hitting piece about how Spaniards are scrimping in the time of crisis.
(2) So we are not talking about people at the beginning of their career scrimping around, hard-up for money.
(3) It might mean scrimping and saving for a deposit on a house, only to see prices spin out of your orbit.
(4) The club scrimps on payroll (30th, 29th, 29th in the last three years) and, even in the face of sparse attendances from a disenfranchised fan base, still profits from league revenue sharing rules.
(5) Over the past few decades we’ve all scrimped and saved up a mountainous pension piggy bank.
(6) The Commons environmental audit committee also calls for the ringfencing of cash to preserve natural habitat (pdf) , to prevent HS2 Ltd scrimping on measures that rail engineers deem impractical.
(7) Soft-spoken and often seemingly ill at ease with publicity, Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe was born to an impoverished family of canoe-makers in the remote district of Otuoke who scrimped to put him through school.
(8) And I want to start today by saying how grateful I am to all of you, to everyone who poured your hearts and your hopes into this campaign, who drove for miles and lined the streets waving homemade signs, who scrimped and saved to raise money, who knocked on doors and made calls, who talked, sometimes argued with your friends and neighbors, who emailed and contributed online, who invested so much in our common enterprise, to the moms and dads who came to our events, who lifted their little girls and little boys on their shoulders and whispered in their ears, “See, you can be anything you want to be.” Donald Trump wins US election: Clinton says glass ceiling will be broken – live Read more To the young people, like 13-year-old Anne Riddell from Mayfield, Ohio, who had been saving for two years to go to Disney World and decided to use her savings instead to travel to Pennsylvania with her mom and volunteer there, as well.
(9) As for scrambling together a deposit for a first flat, some calculations suggest that young families are nowadays required to scrimp for a dozen years , others put the figure at 22 .
(10) It’s seductive: we all know someone who did win: the entrepreneur who struck it rich, hard-working immigrants who scrimped to put the kids through college, clawing their way to the middle class.
(11) No amount of scrimping on holidays or mobile phones will be enough to pay for the £100,000 needed to move up from a two-bed flat to a three-bed semi in many parts of Britain, let alone find the £500 a month that pension experts tell us we need to put aside every month to fund a decent pension in retirement.
(12) If these organisations want to scrimp on staff pensions it begs the question, are these the sort of organisations that we want running our welfare system, our schools and our hospitals?
(13) He said he had been working 90 hours a week because the governing body scrimped on staff costs in order to save up for a sports centre, including a women-only swimming pool.
(14) With the few dollars they scrimped from their labor, some bought tickets and boarded buses, even if they couldn't always sit where they wanted to sit.
(15) Where their parents might have had to scrimp for three years to get a deposit together in the 1980s, the Resolution Foundation calculates that high house prices would mean a youngster on middling pay today having to save for something like 22 years.
(16) The unemployed and the sick do not have the scope to muddle through by scrimping and saving as those who are lucky enough to be in work do.
(17) Confronted with the prospect of paying a £20-a-week bedroom tax out of a weekly income of around £110 from April, she has also opted to leave ("I'm scrimping and saving as it is," she says); she will move around 100 miles away to Weston-super-Mare on 21 March.
(18) Millions of families are struggling with the hidden costs of sending children to state school, with many forced to take out loans or scrimp on food and heating to pay for basics such as dinners, uniforms, course materials and trips.
(19) Panic about so-called “knife-edge”, “life-or-death” negotiations has become so commonplace that it is almost meaningless to a population whose major concerns are still making ends meet and scrimping for enough to eat.
(20) But Justin King, chief executive, said Sainsbury's had prospered, as shoppers apparently scrimped in October and November to fund a blowout in December: "Customers took the opportunity to spend a little less, week in week out, so they could buy the best for special occasions."
Short
Definition:
(superl.) Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
(superl.) Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
(superl.) Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
(superl.) Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.
(superl.) Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
(superl.) Not distant in time; near at hand.
(superl.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
(superl.) Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
(superl.) Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
(superl.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
(superl.) Brittle.
(superl.) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
(adv.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.
(n.) A summary account.
(n.) The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
(n.) Short, inferior hemp.
(n.) Breeches; shortclothes.
(n.) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
(adv.) In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
(v. t.) To shorten.
(v. i.) To fail; to decrease.
Example Sentences:
(1) Low birth weight, short stature, and mental retardation were common features in the four known patients with r(8).
(2) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
(3) Comparison of wild type and the mutant parD promoter sequences indicated that three short repeats are likely involved in the negative regulation of this promoter.
(4) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(5) Sixteen patients in whom schizophrenia was initially diagnosed and who were treated with fluphenazine enanthate or decanoate developed severe depression for a short period after the injection.
(6) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(7) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
(8) A significant correlation was found between the amplitude ratio of the R2 and the sensitivity ratio of the rapid off-response at short and long wavelengths.
(9) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(10) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(11) Optimum rates of acetylene reduction in short-term assays occurred at 20% O2 (0.2 atm (1 atm = 101.325 kPa] in the gas phase.
(12) Because of the short detachment interval, and the absence of underlying pathology or trauma, the recovery process described here probably represents an example of optimum recovery after retinal reattachment.
(13) Several interpretations of the results are examined including the possibility that the effects of Valium use were short-lived rather than long-term and that Valium may have been taken in anticipation of anxiety rather than after its occurrence.
(14) Short incubations with heparin (5 min) caused a release of the enzyme into the media, while longer incubations caused a 2-8-fold increase in net lipoprotein lipase secretion which was maximal after 2-16 h depending on cell type, and persisted for 24 h. The effect of heparin was dose-dependent and specific (it was not duplicated by other glycosaminoglycans).
(15) The following conclusions emerge: (i) when the 3' or the 3' penultimate base of the oligonucleotide mismatched an allele, no amplification product could be detected; (ii) when the mismatches were 3 and 4 bases from the 3' end of the primer, differential amplification was still observed, but only at certain concentrations of magnesium chloride; (iii) the mismatched allele can be detected in the presence of a 40-fold excess of the matched allele; (iv) primers as short as 13 nucleotides were effective; and (v) the specificity of the amplification could be overwhelmed by greatly increasing the concentration of target DNA.
(16) Much of the current information concerning this issue is from short-term studies.
(17) Mieko Nagaoka took just under an hour and 16 minutes to finish the race as the sole competitor in the 100 to 104-year-old category at a short course pool in Ehime, western Japan , on Saturday.
(18) Although temazepam was effective for maintaining sleep with short-term use, there was rapid development of tolerance for this effect with intermediate-term use.
(19) Thus there may be four types of LPS in PACI: one contains unsubstituted core polysaccharide and yields L2 on acid hydrolysis, another has short antigenic side-chains of the SR type and yields the LI fraction, while the two high molecular weight fractions are derived from core polysaccharides with different side-chains.
(20) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.