NICKEL-AND-DIME: Meaning and related words

We found 20 dictionaries that define the word nickel-and-dime:

General (17 matching dictionaries)

nickel-and-dime: Merriam-Webster
nickel-and-dime: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
nickel-and-dime: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
nickel-and-dime, nickel-and-dime: Collins English Dictionary
nickel-and-dime: Vocabulary.com
nickel-and-dime: Wordnik
nickel-and-dime: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
nickel-and-dime: Wiktionary
nickel-and-dime: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
nickel-and-dime: Infoplease Dictionary
nickel-and-dime: Dictionary.com
nickel-and-dime: Rhymezone
nickel-and-dime: FreeDictionary.org
nickel-and-dime: Mnemonic Dictionary
nickel-and-dime: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

nickel-and-dime: Idioms
nickel-and-dime: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

nickel-and-dime, nickel-and-dime: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective: Alternative spelling of nickel and dime [(US, idiomatic, colloquial) Small time; operating on a small scale; involving small amounts of money; petty or cheap.]
▸ verb: Alternative spelling of nickel and dime [(US, idiomatic, colloquial) To charge, or be charged, several unexpected small amounts of money, often in the form of fees, taxes, or related expenses to a venture, which when taken as a whole add up to a significant unexpected cost.]

Opposite:

grand, lavish, opulent, sumptuous

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