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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 pen·ny-pinch·ing /-ˌpɪnʧɪŋ/

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 penny-pinching
      adj : giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing
            administration"; "very close (or near) with his money";
            "a penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: cheeseparing,
             close, near]
      n : extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money
          unnecessarily [syn: parsimony, parsimoniousness, thrift]