How to pronounce “scrimp”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• A pinching miser; a niggard.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, sometimes with on) To make too small or short; to shortchange.
• (transitive) To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
• (intransitive) To be frugal, whether to a reasonable and wise extent or to a miserly and unwise extent.
• [Adjective]
• Short; scanty; curtailed.

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