Meaning of credit-crunched | Babel Free

Definitions

Affected by a credit crunch; constrained in spending.

informal

Examples

“"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.”

“In these credit-crunched times, no one can afford a single inaccuracy that could lower a credit score.”

“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.”

CEFR level