credit-crunched

English

Alternative forms

• credit crunched

Etymology

credit crunch +‎ -ed

Adjective

credit-crunched (comparative more credit-crunched, superlative most credit-crunched)

1. (informal) Affected by a credit crunch; constrained in spending.
   • 2010 January 8, Elena Moya, “London International Boat Show feels ill wind from credit crunch”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     "I am still credit crunched, although I managed not to get ripped off by bankers," said rock singer Danny Peyronel, who lives in the South of France.

   • 2010, Suze Orman, Suze Orman's Action Plan: New Rules for New Times, Random House, →ISBN, page 39:

     In these credit-crunched times, no one can afford a single inaccuracy that could lower a credit score.

   • 2014, Matthew Bishop, Michael Green, The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 185:

     Keynes would certainly have seen clear parallels between the credit-crunched economy of 2009 and that of the Great Depression, when he wrote his seminal work, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

Further reading

• “credit-crunched”, in Collins English Dictionary.