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单词 scrimp
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scrimp

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishscrimpscrimp /skrɪmp/ verb [intransitive]  SAVE MONEYto try to save as much money as you can, even though you have very little They scrimped and saved for years to buy their own home.→ See Verb tableExamples from the CorpusscrimpHow I hate your mean, scrimping, grabbing, greedy guts.All those years of scrimping may have been needless.Facing a financially bleak Christmas, he scrimped together every last penny to afford presents for the four boys.scrimped and savedMy parents scrimped and saved to pay for my education.Origin scrimp (1700-1800) Probably from a Scandinavian language
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