pinching
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pinching
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- Ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money: cheap, close, close-fisted, costive, hard-fisted, mean2, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penurious, petty, stingy, tight, tightfisted. See give/take/reciprocity.
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- Practice, Tools, and Techniques - pinching: removal of tips of twigs and branches to force bushy growth
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