Today’s “Word of the Day” is “penny-pinching“ and it is an adjective meaning “unwilling to spend money; miserly, niggardly, close-fisted, mean/stingy”.
Example Sentence: There was a petty skirmish of interdepartmental briefing on the question of whether a penny-pinching chancellor Rishi Sunak had blocked money that the education secretary would have given to hungry children.
This word is present in The Guardian article Rishi Sunak’s ambition is on a collision course with Boris Johnson’s ego and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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