someone who hates spending money► stingy not generous with your money, even though you are not poor: · Don't be so stingy! It's your turn to buy me a drink.· It's no use asking him - he's too stingy to give money to charity.
► mean British someone who is mean does not like spending money or sharing what they have with other people: · Rick's so mean he never even buys his wife a birthday present.· My father was a mean old man who resented every penny he spent on us.
► cheap American, especially spoken someone who is cheap does not like spending money, and always tries to avoid spending it: · Uncle Matt was really cheap - he used to stay with us for weeks, and he never paid for anything.
► tight-fisted informal not generous with money - use this about people who annoy you because they have money but do not like spending it: · He was known to have made a fortune on the stock market, but was nonetheless notoriously tight-fisted.
► miser someone who hates spending money, and prefers to save as much as possible - use this especially about someone who has collected a lot of money by doing this: · Mr Henny was a miser who had thousands of pounds hidden away under his bed.
not generous with money SYN stingy—tight-fistedness noun [uncountable]