nickel-and-dime
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
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- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
spend money frugally; spend as little as possible
Types & categories
- expend hypernym
Sense 2 adjective
of minor importance
a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room
Related & opposite
- unimportant similar to
Sense 3 verb
accumulate gradually
she nickeled-and-dimed together a small house for her family
Types & categories
- scrape up hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | expend |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | unimportant |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | scrape up |