Dictionary

credit-crunched en · ADJ

Etymology

From credit crunch + -ed.

Meanings

1. (informal) Affected by a credit crunch; constrained in spending.
   • In these credit-crunched times, no one can afford a single inaccuracy that could lower a credit score. 2010, Suze Orman, Suze Orman's Action Plan: New Rules for New Times, Random House, →ISBN, page 39:
   • 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. 2014, Matthew Bishop, Michael Green, The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 185:
   • "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. 2010 January 8, Elena Moya, “London International Boat Show feels ill wind from credit crunch”, in The Guardian:

Forms