pesetero

adj.

penny-pinching, cheapskate, stingy.

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pesetero

► adjetivo

1 money-grubbing

► nombre masculino,nombre femenino

1 money-grubber

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ADJ

1) (=avaro) money-grabbing *, mercenary

2) Méx [comerciante] small-time

3) And, CAm, Caribe (=gorrón) sponging *

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-ra adjetivo (Esp fam) money-grubbing (colloq)

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= stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], tight-fisted, miser, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad.

Ex. All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.

Ex. The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.

Ex. If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex. He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

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-ra adjetivo (Esp fam) money-grubbing (colloq)

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= stingy [stingier -comp., stingies -sup.], tight-fisted, miser, skinflint, penny-pinching, tightwad.

Ex: All subjects completed a four-page questionnaire in which they rated Americans on six bipolar adjective dimensions: friendly/unfriendly, polite/impolite, industrious/lazy, religious/anti-religious, generous/stingy, and patriotic/not patriotic.

Ex: The money for modernizing Indian towns will have to come out of the pockets of leading merchants, men stereotyped as tight-fisted scrooges.

Ex: If one were to think of an analogue outside the library situation, one would conjure up the image of a miser cackling with delight as he counts and recounts his beloved coins.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

Ex: He is been described as a penny-pinching skinflint tightwad who would sooner die than part with a dollar.

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pesetero¹ -ra

adjective

(Esp fam) money-grubbing (colloq)

pesetero² -ra

masculine, feminine

(Esp fam) money-grubber (colloq)

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pesetero,-a adjetivo stingy: no te hará nada gratis, es muy pesetero, he won't do anything for nothing, he's so mercenary
'pesetero' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
pesetera

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pesetero, -a Esp Fam Pey

♦ adj

money-grubbing

♦ nm,f

moneygrubber

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pesetero

adj fam

money-grubbing fam