Usually means: Reduce spending, live more frugally.
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  1. tighten one's belt: Merriam-Webster
  2. tighten one's belt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tighten one's belt, tighten one's belt: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tighten one's belt: Vocabulary.com
  5. tighten one's belt: Wiktionary
  6. tighten one's belt, tighten ones belt: Dictionary.com
  7. tighten one's belt: Rhymezone
  8. tighten ones belt: FreeDictionary.org
  9. tighten one's belt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. tighten one's belt: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (tighten one's belt)

verb:  (figuratively) To be more frugal; to make difficult economic savings due to a lowering of expected income.


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