Usually means: Operating with very limited resources.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word shoestring:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoestring: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shoestring: Merriam-Webster
  3. shoestring: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shoestring: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shoestring: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shoestring: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shoestring, shoestring: Wordnik
  8. shoestring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. shoestring: Wiktionary
  10. shoestring: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shoestring: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shoestring: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shoestring: Dictionary.com
  14. shoestring: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Shoestring (TV series), Shoestring (disambiguation), Shoestring: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. shoestring: Rhymezone
  17. shoestring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. shoestring: FreeDictionary.org
  19. shoestring: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. shoestring: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Shoestring: World Wide Words

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shoestring: Investopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoestring: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoestring: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoestring: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly US) The string or lace used to secure a shoe to the foot; a shoelace.
noun:  (figuratively, often attributively)
noun:  An object that is long and thin, like a shoestring (sense 1).
noun:  (cooking) A long, narrow cut of a food; a julienne.
noun:  Chiefly in on a shoestring: very little money; a tight budget.
adjective:  (US, chiefly American football, baseball) Of a catch or tackle: made near the ground, close to a player's shoes.
verb:  (transitive, American football) To tackle (a player) using a shoestring tackle (“one made near the ground, close to a player's shoes”).
verb:  (transitive, baseball) To catch (a ball) using a shoestring catch (“one made near the ground, close to a player's shoes”).

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