Usually means: Unwilling to spend or give.
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  1. tight-fisted: Wordnik
  2. tight-fisted: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. tight-fisted: Wiktionary
  4. tight-fisted: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. tight-fisted: Dictionary.com
  6. tight-fisted: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. tight-fisted: ESL Idiom Page
  8. tight-fisted: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  reluctant to spend money; miserly or stingy

Similar:
penny-pinching, tightfisted, tight-assed, miserly, chintzy, close-fisted, tight, costive, stingy, narrow-fisted, more...

Opposite:
generous, liberal, open-handed

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Similar:
penny-pinching, tightfisted, tight-assed, miserly, chintzy, close-fisted, tight, costive, stingy, narrow-fisted, more...

Opposite:
generous, liberal, open-handed



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