credit-crunched
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.57 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""I am still credit crunched, although I managed not to get ripped off by bankers," said rock singer Danny Peyronel, who lives in the South of France."
- "In these credit-crunched times, no one can afford a single inaccuracy that could lower a credit score."
- "Keynes would certainly have seen clear parallels between the credit-crunched economy of 2009 and that of the Great Depression, when he wrote his seminal work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money."
Etymology
From credit crunch + -ed.