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nickel-and-dime
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nickel-and-dime
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb nickel-and-dime has 2 senses
- nickel-and-dime(v = verb.possession) penny-pinch - spend money frugally; spend as little as possible; Array is one way to drop, expend, spend
- nickel-and-dime(v = verb.contact) Array - accumulate gradually; "she nickeled-and-dimed together a small house for her family" is one way to come up, scrape, scrape up, scratch
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Adjective nickel-and-dime has 2 senses
- nickel-and-dime(s = adj.all) small-time - of minor importance; "a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room"; "a small-time actor"
- nickel-and-dime(s = adj.all) Array - low-paying; "a nickel-and-dime job"
CIDE DICTIONARY
nickel-and-dime, v. t.
- To harass or annoy with petty demands or for trivial reasons; [PJC]
- To weaken or impair gradually or by small steps; as, to be nickel-and-dimed into bankruptcy by the operating overhead. [PJC]
nickel-and-dime, a.
- Trivial; unimportant; petty; as, nickel-and-dime criticisms. [PJC]
- Involving only small amounts of money; small-time; as, a nickel-and-dime business operation. [PJC]
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