penny-pincher

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English

Noun

penny-pincher (plural penny-pinchers)

  1. Alternative spelling of penny pincher
    • 2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in Rail, page 48:
      Hopefully, the penny-pinchers at the DfT/Treasury will finally agree to this. otherwise many of the proposed benefits will be lost.

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