Usually means: Stingy, reluctant to spend money.
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  1. closefisted: Merriam-Webster
  2. closefisted: Vocabulary.com
  3. closefisted: Wordnik
  4. closefisted: Wiktionary
  5. closefisted: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. closefisted: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Closefisted, closefisted: Dictionary.com
  8. Closefisted: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. closefisted: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. closefisted: Rhymezone
  11. Closefisted: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. closefisted: FreeDictionary.org
  13. closefisted: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. Closefisted: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. closefisted: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (closefisted)

▸ adjective:  Unwilling to spend money; stingy

Similar:
stingy, tightfisted, hardfisted, ungenerous, niggardly, strapped for cash, cash-starved, strapped for money, niggard, thriftless, more...

Opposite:
generous, liberal, openhanded

Types:
stingy, miserly, parsimonious, avaricious, penurious, more...

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Similar:
stingy, tightfisted, hardfisted, ungenerous, niggardly, strapped for cash, cash-starved, strapped for money, niggard, thriftless, more...

Opposite:
generous, liberal, openhanded

Types:
stingy, miserly, parsimonious, avaricious, penurious, more...



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