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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
nickel-and-dime
1. spend money frugally;
spend as little as possible
• Syn:
penny-pinch
• Hypernyms:
spend, expend, drop
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
2. accumulate gradually
- she nickeled-and-dimed together a small house for her family
• Hypernyms:
scrape, scrape up, scratch, come up
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
1. of minor importance
- a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room
- a small-time actor
• Syn:
small-time
• Similar to:
unimportant
2. low-paying
- a nickel-and-dime job
• Similar to:
cheap, inexpensive
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