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Definition of nickel-and-dime in English: nickel-and-dimeverb [with object]North American informal Harass (someone) by charging for many trivial items or services. we don't nickel-and-dime our customers like some vendors that charge extra for every little utility Example sentencesExamples - He added that ‘you will get nickel-and-dimed if you list free works with eBay.’
- She's also careful not to nickel-and-dime clients for extra charges.
- Some added charges seemed arbitrary and left me feeling nickel-and-dimed.
- Mobile-phone companies have inherited this arrogance, building their business models around nickel-and-diming customers.
- Because when you nickel-and-dime a global audience for enhanced experiences that start off freely given and are augmented through increments, you're looking at serious money being generated.
- You know, it's - I think it's always dangerous when you get nickel-and-dimed for things you used to get for free.
- If companies charge extra for specialized modules, they get accused of nickel-and-diming the customer.
- If it does, corporations might back off from nickel-and-diming those they are supposed to serve.
- And, as one Pentagon official here said, nobody here wanted to nickel-and-dime the troops that are putting their lives on the line.
- When Cognizant gives you a price, they don't come back and nickel-and-dime you.
- Companies, hard-pressed for money, are taking every possible opportunity to nickel-and-dime people to death.
- My one big concern about Schwab was that they were just nickel-and-diming people to death.
- US phone customers are already nickel-and-dimed by a long list of surcharges and tariffs, and the Bill as it stands ensures that cash-strapped States and Districts don't dip into this new source for additional revenue.
- And speaking of paying for premium service: it is strange but true that the more you pay for a hotel room, the more likely you are to be nickel-and-dimed to death once you're inside.
- It's an instance of consumers being nickel-and-dimed to death.
- They will let you nickel-and-dime them to death.
- Nothing can spoil a vacation faster than feeling like you're being nickel-and-dimed at every turn: a few bucks for the bellhop here, $20 for lunch there, $7 for a tropical drink, $25 for a two-hour kayak rental… and so on.
- ‘You don't get nickel-and-dimed to death, and when you install an appliance, you're done,’ he says.
- ‘It is a small victory,’ says Hayes, who suggests that HRDC is simply nickel-and-diming recipients struggling to make ends meet in an expensive city like Toronto.
- The approach is novel - and welcome at a time when most airlines are finding ways to nickel-and-dime fliers to death with countless fees.
adjective North American informal attributive Of little importance. the only games this weekend are nickel-and-dime stuff Example sentencesExamples - We couldn't subsidize [housing] enough, so people have to have jobs and they have to be living-wage jobs, not the nickel-and-dime stuff.
- We can start with a tiny company in a hardscrabble nickel-and-dime industry and build it into a billion-dollar business.
- Circling this orgy of nickel-and-dime excess were overhead murals that vaguely recalled the great outdoors with modernist visions of birds flying over mountaintops.
- Charging for seats with padded armrests or for reclining seats are among other nickel-and-dime possibilities, according to The Post.
- Making loud noises about nickel-and-dime cuts in small domestic programs is not a fiscal policy.
- The welfare class makes a pittance with nickel-and-dime scams that get them scorned and arrested.
- Desorcy, a nickel-and-dime operator, hesitated due to the large amount.
- We were the nickel-and-dime gritty-city crew; never had I felt so much a part of Part II of John Edwards's ‘two Americas’ as I did that afternoon - the poor, wet, huddled part.
- In the last few years, any nickel-and-dime protest outfit could make a name for itself by getting pepper sprayed on television.
- SoBe's owners became so upset by Coke's nickel-and-dime demands that they walked out and quickly cut a deal with Pepsi.
- Ideally, a couple will have fallen into a pattern not so much of nickel-and-dime quid pro quo, but rather, a more natural exchange of, let's say, in-kind donations.
- There are a few class acts, but in general the skateboard industry is still a pretty nickel-and-dime affair.
- The point is, when you have these nickel-and-dime hikes, it's not going to work very much.
- The old-line NFL people called it a nickel-and-dime offense.
- Plugging those nickel-and-dime leaks was Accruent's original mission.
- If you want to spend your life chasing nickel-and-dime papers, you go right ahead.
- But often the real pleasure of this genre is in the little cons, the microcosmic nickel-and-dime swindles scattered around in the first reel.
- But Schneider, reminding this Judge of a younger, pudgier, Southern-fried Kevin Costner, holds up his end in the more central and screentime-intensive role of the nickel-and-dime Lothario who finally meets his match.
- Harbaugh did nothing but throw nickel-and-dime stuff in the fourth quarter, and if he continues to play, that's probably how it's going to be.
- But talk is cheap and getting cheaper by the day, judging by the nickel-and-dime treatment the troops are getting lately.
Synonyms minute, small-scale, scaled-down, mini, baby, toy, pocket, fun-size, petite, dwarfish, knee-high, miniature, minuscule, microscopic, nanoscopic, infinitesimal, micro, diminutive, pocket-sized, reduced, lilliputian
Origin Late 19th century: originally denoting a shop selling articles costing five or ten cents. Definition of nickel-and-dime in US English: nickel-and-dimeverbˌnɪkəl ən ˈdaɪmˌnikəl ən ˈdīm [with object]North American informal Put a financial strain on (someone) by charging small amounts for many minor services. we don't nickel-and-dime our customers like some vendors that charge extra for every little utility Example sentencesExamples - Nothing can spoil a vacation faster than feeling like you're being nickel-and-dimed at every turn: a few bucks for the bellhop here, $20 for lunch there, $7 for a tropical drink, $25 for a two-hour kayak rental… and so on.
- Mobile-phone companies have inherited this arrogance, building their business models around nickel-and-diming customers.
- The approach is novel - and welcome at a time when most airlines are finding ways to nickel-and-dime fliers to death with countless fees.
- My one big concern about Schwab was that they were just nickel-and-diming people to death.
- They will let you nickel-and-dime them to death.
- If companies charge extra for specialized modules, they get accused of nickel-and-diming the customer.
- You know, it's - I think it's always dangerous when you get nickel-and-dimed for things you used to get for free.
- When Cognizant gives you a price, they don't come back and nickel-and-dime you.
- It's an instance of consumers being nickel-and-dimed to death.
- Because when you nickel-and-dime a global audience for enhanced experiences that start off freely given and are augmented through increments, you're looking at serious money being generated.
- ‘You don't get nickel-and-dimed to death, and when you install an appliance, you're done,’ he says.
- Companies, hard-pressed for money, are taking every possible opportunity to nickel-and-dime people to death.
- And, as one Pentagon official here said, nobody here wanted to nickel-and-dime the troops that are putting their lives on the line.
- Some added charges seemed arbitrary and left me feeling nickel-and-dimed.
- US phone customers are already nickel-and-dimed by a long list of surcharges and tariffs, and the Bill as it stands ensures that cash-strapped States and Districts don't dip into this new source for additional revenue.
- If it does, corporations might back off from nickel-and-diming those they are supposed to serve.
- She's also careful not to nickel-and-dime clients for extra charges.
- ‘It is a small victory,’ says Hayes, who suggests that HRDC is simply nickel-and-diming recipients struggling to make ends meet in an expensive city like Toronto.
- He added that ‘you will get nickel-and-dimed if you list free works with eBay.’
- And speaking of paying for premium service: it is strange but true that the more you pay for a hotel room, the more likely you are to be nickel-and-dimed to death once you're inside.
adjectiveˌnɪkəl ən ˈdaɪmˌnikəl ən ˈdīm North American informal attributive Of little importance; petty. the only games this weekend are nickel-and-dime stuff Example sentencesExamples - SoBe's owners became so upset by Coke's nickel-and-dime demands that they walked out and quickly cut a deal with Pepsi.
- But talk is cheap and getting cheaper by the day, judging by the nickel-and-dime treatment the troops are getting lately.
- Plugging those nickel-and-dime leaks was Accruent's original mission.
- Ideally, a couple will have fallen into a pattern not so much of nickel-and-dime quid pro quo, but rather, a more natural exchange of, let's say, in-kind donations.
- Desorcy, a nickel-and-dime operator, hesitated due to the large amount.
- The old-line NFL people called it a nickel-and-dime offense.
- But often the real pleasure of this genre is in the little cons, the microcosmic nickel-and-dime swindles scattered around in the first reel.
- Harbaugh did nothing but throw nickel-and-dime stuff in the fourth quarter, and if he continues to play, that's probably how it's going to be.
- We couldn't subsidize [housing] enough, so people have to have jobs and they have to be living-wage jobs, not the nickel-and-dime stuff.
- If you want to spend your life chasing nickel-and-dime papers, you go right ahead.
- The point is, when you have these nickel-and-dime hikes, it's not going to work very much.
- In the last few years, any nickel-and-dime protest outfit could make a name for itself by getting pepper sprayed on television.
- The welfare class makes a pittance with nickel-and-dime scams that get them scorned and arrested.
- There are a few class acts, but in general the skateboard industry is still a pretty nickel-and-dime affair.
- We were the nickel-and-dime gritty-city crew; never had I felt so much a part of Part II of John Edwards's ‘two Americas’ as I did that afternoon - the poor, wet, huddled part.
- Charging for seats with padded armrests or for reclining seats are among other nickel-and-dime possibilities, according to The Post.
- Making loud noises about nickel-and-dime cuts in small domestic programs is not a fiscal policy.
- Circling this orgy of nickel-and-dime excess were overhead murals that vaguely recalled the great outdoors with modernist visions of birds flying over mountaintops.
- We can start with a tiny company in a hardscrabble nickel-and-dime industry and build it into a billion-dollar business.
- But Schneider, reminding this Judge of a younger, pudgier, Southern-fried Kevin Costner, holds up his end in the more central and screentime-intensive role of the nickel-and-dime Lothario who finally meets his match.
Synonyms minute, small-scale, scaled-down, mini, baby, toy, pocket, fun-size, petite, dwarfish, knee-high, miniature, minuscule, microscopic, nanoscopic, infinitesimal, micro, diminutive, pocket-sized, reduced, lilliputian
Origin Late 19th century: originally denoting a shop selling articles costing five or ten cents. |