| 词汇 | scrimped |
| 释义 | scrimped past simple and past participle ofscrimp scrimp verb[ I ] uk /skrɪmp/ us /skrɪmp/ to save money by spending less than is necessary to reach an acceptable standard: 过度缩减开支 There is a risk that the debt-ridden airline may be tempted to scrimp on maintenance or security.有这样一种风险，即这个债台高筑的航空公司可能会想在维修或安检上缩减开支。 scrimp and save If you scrimp and save, you manage to live on very little money in order to pay for something: 省吃俭用，节衣缩食 I've been scrimping and saving all year to pay for our holiday.我一整年都在为我们能够度一次假而省吃俭用。 Saving money bank deposit account deposit something with someone depositor direct deposit interest rate on depositidiom pension plan put put something aside put something by redeposit retirement plan salt something away saving scrimp squirrel something away TESSA undersaver war chest You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Budgeting money Examples of scrimpedscrimped In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Those people have scrimped and saved for their old age. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Having scrimped and saved this money ourselves, we then need to use it to good purpose. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We are talking about men and women who have worked, scrimped, saved and struggled all their lives for a future better than this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The trade unions know how often the dockyards have scrimped and saved in the past. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will already have scrimped and saved to accrue £50, and then £60, and now find that for a normal family application they will have to pay £300. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sugar-beet has cost the nation an immense sum at a time when the outlay on running village schools has been scrimped. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have scrimped and saved all their working lives for their retirement and for the possibility of enjoying that period of their lives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then there are others who have scrimped and saved all their lives, only to find that their thrift is being penalised. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What happened to those who scrimped and saved and gave up holidays, smoking and drinking to manage to save a little? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In my constituency—which is predominantly elderly and middle-class—most people have little in the way of savings, but have worked hard all their lives and scrimped and saved for their retirement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They are people who have scrimped and saved, who have been careful over the years and who find sudden and violent increases in rates a terribly heavy burden for them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is one important group of old-age pensioners for whom no relief has been announced today—those who have scrimped and saved to pay for their retirement. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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