0 past simple and past participle of scrimp --
1 to save money by spending less than is necessary to reach an acceptable standard: --
There is one important group of old-age pensioners for whom no relief has been announced today—those who have scrimped and saved to pay for their retirement.
They got a brand-new home, while the widow who had scrimped and saved for years in the most extraordinarily difficult circumstances had to go round the second-hand shops.
They are people who have scrimped and saved, who have been careful over the years and who find sudden and violent increases in rates a terribly heavy burden for them.
In my constituency—which is predominantly elderly and middle-class—most people have little in the way of savings, but have worked hard all their lives and scrimped and saved for their retirement.
What happened to those who scrimped and saved and gave up holidays, smoking and drinking to manage to save a little?
Then there are others who have scrimped and saved all their lives, only to find that their thrift is being penalised.
They have scrimped and saved all their working lives for their retirement and for the possibility of enjoying that period of their lives.
Sugar-beet has cost the nation an immense sum at a time when the outlay on running village schools has been scrimped.
