STRAITENED | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary Some participants accepted poor or insufficient care and restrained their own demands because they felt the government's straitened economic circumstances required it
straiten - Wiktionary, the free dictionary To make strait; to narrow or confine to a smaller space The channel straitened the river through the town, made it flow faster, and caused more flooding upstream
straitened | meaning of straitened in Longman Dictionary of . . . • His father died in 1886, leaving the young family in straitened circumstances • I should have sent the drinks back, but instead looked upon them as a windfall in our rather straitened circumstances
Straiten - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com To straiten is to restrict financially, the way having your rent increase can straiten your circumstances if your salary stays the same The verb straiten is an old-fashioned one, but it's one way to describe a situation that's been diminished or constrained, usually because of money problems