STRAITENED Definition Meaning - Dictionary. com characterized by financial difficulty or limited means His early death left his widow and five young children in straitened circumstances restricted or limited; narrow or confining She released her album on the Internet as a way of avoiding the “straitened formats” of radio and TV, she said the simple past tense and past participle of straiten
Straitened - definition of straitened by The Free Dictionary Define straitened straitened synonyms, straitened pronunciation, straitened translation, English dictionary definition of straitened tr v strait·ened , strait·en·ing , strait·ens 1 To put or bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship
STRAITENED definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary If someone is living in straitened circumstances, they do not have as much money as they used to, and are finding it very hard to buy or pay for everything that they need [ formal ] His father died when he was ten, leaving the family in straitened circumstances
straitened adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation . . . Definition of straitened adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary without enough money or as much money as there was before The family of eight was living in straitened circumstances The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words