0 past simple and past participle of grudge
1 to not want to spend time or money on someone or something, or to not want to give something to someone:
I do not think anyone grudged those benefits being extended at the time.
This country had grudged every penny that has been spent upon their education, and has left them undeveloped in that way.
I say emphatically that no money should be grudged in completing the work so well begun and so splendidly advanced.
If there is any one piece of expenditure in this order which should not be grudged, it is the £1,760,000 additional expenditure on the police.
Shipping has been grudged, though it is often found for far less vital services.
Money spent on the retraining and development of people coming out of the pit is surely money that should not be grudged.
No one can say that this country has grudged money for housing.
We shall not be grudged money for the recruitment of teachers provided that we convince public opinion that we use them to the best advantage.
