Usually means: Reduce or limit spending money.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. tighten the purse strings: Merriam-Webster
  2. tighten the purse strings: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tighten the purse strings: Wiktionary
  4. tighten the purse strings: Dictionary.com
  5. tighten the purse strings: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tighten the purse strings: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tighten the purse strings: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (tighten the purse strings)

verb:  (idiomatic, colloquial) To decrease spending or disallow increased spending; to increase control of spending.

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