credit-crunched
English
Alternative forms
- credit crunched
Etymology
credit crunch + -ed
Adjective
credit-crunched (comparative more credit-crunched, superlative most credit-crunched)
- (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.
Further reading
- “credit-crunched”, in Collins English Dictionary.