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What does tight-fisted mean?

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Adjective
  1. reluctant to spend money; miserly or stingy
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Hopefully the tight-fisted owner will put that money back into the baseball team, as I believe there is a way for this team to contend soon.
A similar observation, however, could be made about tight-fisted conservatives who make campaign pledges they don't keep while local school taxes keep rising.
She did make the tight-fisted one pay up eventually, but months were to elapse before that desirable consummation was reached.
This Cobb man is a tight-fisted old bachelor, they say, but his milk of human kindness may not be all skimmed.
And if me, an Aberdonian, and an extremely tight-fisted one at that, can part with 13 notes, why not?
Here, his father comes across as a tight-fisted, big-hearted dreamer who always promised more than he could deliver.

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