Usually means: Strict, frugal in using resources.
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  1. strait-handed: Wordnik
  2. strait-handed: Wiktionary
  3. Strait-handed: Dictionary.com
  4. Strait-handed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. strait-handed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Strait-handed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. strait-handed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  8. strait-handed: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Strait-handed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (archaic) parsimonious; sparing; niggardly

Similar:
scanty, close, narrow, near, closehanded, dry-fisted, parsimonious, hard-fisted, close-handed, narrow-fisted, more...

Opposite:
left-handed, ambidextrous, sinistral

Types:
right-handed, dextral, sinister, more...

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Similar:
scanty, close, narrow, near, closehanded, dry-fisted, parsimonious, hard-fisted, close-handed, narrow-fisted, more...

Opposite:
left-handed, ambidextrous, sinistral

Types:
right-handed, dextral, sinister, more...



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