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Dictionary: strapped   (străpt) pronunciation
 
adj. Informal.

In financial need: We are strapped for cash right now.


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adjective

    Having little or no money or wealth: beggarly, destitute, down-and-out, impecunious, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty-stricken. Informal broke. Idioms: hard up, on one's uppers. See rich/poor.

 
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Definition: destitute
Antonyms: rich, wealthy


 
 
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