Definition of "penny-pinching" [penny-pinching]

• Giving or spending money grudgingly; stingy. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "So there's not going to be any reason for penny-pinching, in other words."
• "His reign was characterized as a penny-pinching, indecisive era of government, dogged by tensions between the emperor and the senatorial classes, which eventually descended into outright despotism and vice.5"
• "Hopes for a full-fledged partnership between Russia and the United States failed, he would contend, not because Washington betrayed such hopes with its penny-pinching and determination to expand NATO, but because the hopes themselves were simply unrealistic."