credit-crunched
English
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editEtymology
editFrom credit crunch + -ed.
Adjective
editcredit-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[1]:
- "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.
- 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.