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nickel-and-dime en · ADJ

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, not-comparable) Alternative spelling of nickel and dime.

nickel-and-dime en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of nickel and dime.
    • Advocates for the poor have long resisted various cities’ efforts to crack down on bags — whether by charging fees or banning them — as a regressive tax on shoppers who can’t afford to be nickel-and-dimed every time they get groceries. 2016 May 5, “How New York Can Put an End to the Plastic Bag”, in The New York Times:
    • The business people began to nickel-and-dime him, no water cooler in the production office, that sort of thing. 1998, Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Simon & Schuster, page 358:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
nickels-and-dimes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
nickelled-and-dimed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic
nickelled-and-dimed Tense=Past UK lexicographic
nickel-and-dimes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
nickel-and-dimed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
nickel-and-dimed Tense=Past lexicographic
nickeling-and-diming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
nickel-and-diming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
nickeled-and-dimed Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part US lexicographic
nickeled-and-dimed Tense=Past US lexicographic
nickelling-and-diming Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part UK lexicographic