0 past simple and past participle of scrimp
1 to save money by spending less than is necessary to reach an acceptable standard:
Those people have scrimped and saved for their old age.
Having scrimped and saved this money ourselves, we then need to use it to good purpose.
We are talking about men and women who have worked, scrimped, saved and struggled all their lives for a future better than this.
The trade unions know how often the dockyards have scrimped and saved in the past.
They will already have scrimped and saved to accrue £50, and then £60, and now find that for a normal family application they will have to pay £300.
Sugar-beet has cost the nation an immense sum at a time when the outlay on running village schools has been scrimped.
They have scrimped and saved all their working lives for their retirement and for the possibility of enjoying that period of their lives.
Then there are others who have scrimped and saved all their lives, only to find that their thrift is being penalised.
