| 词汇 | cheeseparing |
| 释义 | cheeseparing noun[ U ] UKdisapprovinguk /ˈtʃiːzˌpeə.rɪŋ/ us /ˈtʃiːzˌper.ɪŋ/ unwillingness to spend money吝啬，小气 Mean with money begrudge cheapskate chintzy frugal frugally meanly miserliness miserly money grabber money-grubber money-grubbing parsimonious pinchpenny scrooge skinflint stingily stinginess tight ungenerous ungenerously He would read the papers and discuss the cheeseparing policy of the Government with some of his old chums, lunch at the club, play a game of dominoes or draughts, and return home in time for dinner. Examples of cheeseparingcheeseparing I have never been in favour of cheeseparing in education. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The farming industry has not been inspired by the prices which have been negotiated so far, because those prices have been niggardly and cheeseparing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The kind of services now under discussion are services on which there is rather a cheeseparing policy in local expenditure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Bearing this in mind, was it not cheeseparing nonsense to get rid of this worth-while body? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is the result of the understandable cheeseparing of research and development. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That seems to me to be cheeseparing economy, if it is economy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely it is not necessary to be as cheeseparing as all this. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They were able to make valuable contributions towards economy, interpreted not as cheeseparing economy but as efficiency. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If he continues this cheeseparing policy, it is inevitable that more and more people will demand to go into institutions. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That does not mean that there will be cheeseparing of the magistrates' courts committee's estimates as a matter of normal course. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, now that we get the regulations we find that they are all on a cheeseparing basis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is really a piece of cheeseparing in the law which makes the whole position ridiculous. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that these figures show that we have not been at all cheeseparing or niggardly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Secondly, we are not raising our opposition merely on the ground of a cheeseparing economy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I thought that that arrangement, made a year ago, was a very cheeseparing one. 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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