credit-crunched

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

credit crunch + -ed

Adjective

credit-crunched (comparative more credit-crunched, superlative most credit-crunched)

  1. (informal) Affected by a credit crunch; constrained in spending.
    • 2010 January 8, Elena Moya, “London International Boat Show feels ill wind from credit crunch”, in The Guardian:
      "I am still credit crunched, although I managed not to get ripped off by bankers," said rock singer Danny Peyronel, who lives in the South of France.
    • 2010, Suze Orman, Suze Orman's Action Plan: New Rules for New Times, Random House, →ISBN, page 39:
      In these credit-crunched times, no one can afford a single inaccuracy that could lower a credit score.
    • 2014, Matthew Bishop, Michael Green, The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 185:
      Keynes would certainly have seen clear parallels between the credit-crunched economy of 2009 and that of the Great Depression, when he wrote his seminal work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

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