nickel-and-dime

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  1. adjective Involving or paying only a small amount of money: a nickel-and-dime job.
  2. adjective Minor; small-time: "a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single borrowed room” (New York).
  3. intransitive verb To spend very little money.
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  • Kugler is president and co-owner of Distribution Video Audio Inc., a company that pulls in annual revenue of $20 million with a proud nickel-and-dime approach to fading and faded pop culture. —  Skirmisher
  • "The change to digital television is just weeks away, and today we learn that the Bush Administration's approach to nickel-and-dime efforts aimed at making this conversion easier on consumers is flat broke," Rockefeller said in a statement. —  Business - BostonHerald.com
  • A nickel-and-dime scam artist has been prolific enough in Colorado Springs to prompt a police warning. —  Gazette.com :
  • When these directors, mostly now in their 40s and 50s, got started, the indie business was full of mom-and-pop operations with nickel-and-dime aspirations. —  GreenCine Daily
  • Liz Pulliam Weston has an interesting, and quite good, article on MSN. com entitled More nickel-and-dime ... —  American Consumer News
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