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straitened

[ streyt-nd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

characterized by financial difficulty or limited means:
His early death left his widow and five young children in straitened circumstances.
restricted or limited; narrow or confining:
She released her album on the Internet as a way of avoiding the “straitened formats” of radio and TV, she said.

First recorded in 1520–30 straitened fordef 3; in 1600–10 straitened fordefs 1, 2; straiten ( def ) + -ed ²( def ) for the adjective senses; straiten ( def ) + -ed ¹( def ) for the verb sense

Such straitened times are simply ghastly, as fans of Downton will know.

Its individual countries will survive, of course, albeit in unnecessarily straitened circumstances.

Even in straitened times, idiosyncratic literature should have its place.

For the bed is straitened, so that one must fall out, and a short covering cannot cover both.

And I cut off three shepherds in one month, and my soul was straitened in their regard: for their soul also varied in my regard.

During the first years of his life the parents may have lived in somewhat straitened circumstances.

Both besiegers and besieged were now becoming straitened for ammunition, for the consumption had been immense.

Carlyle still remained in straitened circumstances, although his reputation was now established.

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