shoestring

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun shoestring has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

shoestringn. 
  •  same as shoelace.  [PJC]
  •  a sum of money, inadequate or barely adequate for the purpose to which it is put to use; as, to start up an enterprise on a shoestring.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

shoestring, n.
1 a shoelace.
2 colloq. a small esp. inadequate amount of money (living on a shoestring).
3 (attrib.) barely adequate; precarious (a shoestring majority).


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