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What is another word for strapped for cash?

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Adjective
Having below average income or lacking money to sufficiently live comfortably
poor
bankrupt
broke
moneyless
penniless
necessitous
beggarly
penurious
impecunious
indigent
needy
needful
destitute
underprivileged
deprived
bust
insolvent
strapped
fortuneless
skint
unprosperous
famished
threadbare
pauperized
beggared
as poor as a church mouse
badly off
bad off
behind eight ball
cleaned out
craptastic
dirt poor
dirt-poor
down and out
down-and-out
down at heel
empty-handed
flat broke
hard up
impoverished
in debt
in need
in penury
in reduced circumstances
in straitened circumstances
in the red
in want
low-income
low-paid
on one's beam-ends
on one's uppers
on the breadline
on the rocks
poverty-stricken
short of money
stone broke
stony broke
stony-broke
truly needy
unable to make ends meet
without a penny
without a penny to one's name
without a sou
without two brass farthings to rub together
without two farthings to rub together
without two pennies to rub together
ruined
in Queer Street
boracic
disadvantaged
short
distressed
out at elbows
out of pocket
down on luck
without a red cent
without a brass farthing
boracic lint
without a bean
flat
cashless
dead broke
on skid row
tapped out
busted
wiped out
in Chapter 11
up against it
hard-pressed
straitened
wanting
pinched
homeless
stony
broken
lacking
indebted
cash-strapped
out of money
over a barrel
without a dime
on one's beam ends
in the gutter
without a shot in one's locker
poor as a church mouse
on last leg
down to last penny
in a bad way
without two pennies farthings to rub together
reduced
struggling
bankrupted
overdrawn
crippled
suffering
unmoneyed
impencunious
hurting
down to last cent
have-not
on the dole
signing on
without money
unable to keep the wolf from the door
in need of
out of cash
financially distressed
in financial difficulties
financially embarrassed
not having two pennies to rub together
not having two farthings to rub together
without means of support
short of cash
miserably poor
financially poor
extremely poor
in great need
very poor
in dire circumstances
stone-broke
in distressed circumstances
liquidated
defaulting
foreclosed
collapsed
in Carey Street
lost
gone under
in administration
unable to pay one's debts
undone
in receivership
financially ruined
belly-up
in Chapter 13
failed
gone bust
in the hands of the receivers
taken to the cleaners
gone to the wall
depressed
rundown
derelict
neglected
unfortunate
unlucky
economically disadvantaged
on the bread line
in distress
economically deprived
financially disadvantaged
pathetic
abject
scanty
low
meagerUS
meagreUK
vagrant
unfavored
vagabond
finished
denuded
bereft
forlorn
underserved
dispossessed
on a tight budget
discriminated against
unaffluent
unprivileged
handicapped
on the streets
hapless
on the skids
in the poorhouse
shabby
slummy
seedy
ghost
shanty
ghetto
in dire straits
ill-fated
ill-starred
run down
run-down
skid row
“I don't know where he gets his figures from, but you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that mutuals are strapped for cash right now.”
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