tight
has definitions from the field of economics
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[ adjective ] closely constrained or constricted or constricting
Examples "tight skirts" "he hated tight starched collars" "fingers closed in a tight fist" "a tight feeling in his chest" Used in print (Frieda Arkin, "The Light of the Sea," in The...)Once her trembling hand , with the pen grasped tight in it , was pressed against the paper the words came sharply , smoothly , as authoritatively as they would dropping from her own lips . (W. H. Gass, "The Pedersen Kid," in The...)I 'd wound Big_Hans up tight . |
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[ adverb ] firmly or tightly
Synonyms Examples "held fast to the rope" "her foot was stuck fast" "held tight" Used in print (Jane Gilmore Rushing, "Against the Moon,"...)It was a Cadillac , black grayed with the dust of the road , its windows closed tight so you knew that the people who climbed out of_it would be cool and unwrinkled . (S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)Hold_on tight . |
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[ adjective ] (economics) affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow
Examples "tight money" "a tight market" Used in print (The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist 's desire to visit the `` smaller , less traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '' , and is now prepared to teach modern_Greek and Portuguese through recordings . |
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[ adjective ] pressed tightly together
Synonyms Examples "with lips compressed" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration
Examples "in tight formation" "a tight blockade" Used in print (87th Congress, 1st Session. Congressional Record....)Military experts say a tight naval_blockade off Cuban ports and at the approaches to Cuban waters would require two naval task_forces , each built around an aircraft_carrier with a complement of about 100 planes and several destroyers . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid
Examples "the bolts are tight" Related terms |
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[ adjective ] packed closely together
Examples "the stood in a tight little group" "hair in tight curls" "the pub was packed tight" Related terms |
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