to be straitened
11straitened — strait|ened [ streıtnd ] adjective FORMAL made difficult by financial problems: straitened circumstances …
12straitened — adjective our straitened circumstances improved once Desmond got his first teaching job Syn: impoverished, poverty stricken, poor, destitute, penniless, as poor as a church mouse, in penury, impecunious, unable to make ends meet, in reduced… …
13straitened — UK [ˈstreɪt(ə)nd] / US adjective formal made difficult by financial problems straitened circumstances …
14straitened — adjective squeezed or confined …
15straitened times — noun Periods of austerity or economic slowdown …
16straitened — strait·en || streɪtn v. put in a difficult situation; restrict, confine; make narrow (Archaic) …
17straitened — adjective restricted in range. → straits …
18straitened — a. Distressed, perplexed, embarrassed, pinched, limited …
19straitened — adj 1. poor, destitute, poverty stricken, impoverished, penurious, impecunious, beggared, pauperized, penniless, indigent, needy, necessitous, bad off, badly off; pinched, Inf. strapped, Inf. up against it, Inf. on one s uppers, Inf. hard up;… …
20straitened — adj poor, reduced, difficult, distressed, limited, restricted, impoverished, embarrassed ≠ easy, well off …
