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.
There is much talk of cuts in the diplomatic service in these straitened times.
straitened in British English
(ˈstreɪtənd)
adjective
formal
affected by financial difficulties or restrictions
There is much talk of cuts in the diplomatic service in these straitened times.
the more straitened economic circumstances of the 1990s
His father died when he was ten, leaving the family in straitened circumstances.
Examples of 'straitened' in a sentence
straitened
The house Anna had designated from the first as `theirs "belonged to an Italian Count whose circumstances had been straitened by the war.
Appiganesi, Lisa DREAMS OF INNOCENCE (2004)
Kathryn seemed tight, straitened by grief, but Aubrey suspected muddy emotions beneath the surface.