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tightening the pursestrings

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tight-en-ing the purs-es-trings
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
25
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of tighten the pursestrings

Questions

What does tightening the pursestrings mean?
present participle and gerund of tighten the pursestrings

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