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Penny-wise

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Adjective

1. penny-wise

thrifty in small matters only

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Penny-wise

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adjective
1. 
greatly concerned with saving small sums of money
2.  penny-wise and pound-foolish

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Penny-wise

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adjective
careful or thrifty in regard to small matters

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Penny-wise

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adj.
Careful in dealing with small sums of money or small matters.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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