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(informal) Affected by a credit crunch; constrained in spending..
"I am still credit crunched, although I managed not to get ripped off by bankers," said rock singer Danny Peyronel, who lives in the South of France.
In these credit-crunched times, no one can afford a single inaccuracy that could lower a credit score.
Keynes would certainly have seen clear parallels between the credit-crunched economy of 2009 and that of the Great Depression, when he wrote his seminal work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
Use credit-crunched when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Credit-crunched means (informal) Affected by a credit crunch; constrained in spending..
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"I am still credit crunched, although I managed not to get ripped off by bankers," said rock singer Danny Peyronel, who lives in the South of France.
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