"scrimp together" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scrimps together",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimping together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimped together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimped together",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "scrimp together (third-person singular simple present scrimps together, present participle scrimping together, simple past and past participle scrimped together)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English phrasal verbs formed with \"together\"",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 March 13, Sara Smith, “2. Birth and the Territorial Body”, in Intimate Geopolitics. Love, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts), New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 40:",
          "text": "the families I had spoken with were betting their futures on education, with even relatively poor farmer families scrimping together money from here and there with their children’s futures in mind. This concern cut across class, with everyone feeling the pinch.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To amass in small amounts by virtue of frugality."
      ],
      "id": "en-scrimp_together-en-verb-uOAQJndm",
      "links": [
        [
          "amass",
          "amass"
        ],
        [
          "frugality",
          "frugality"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To amass in small amounts by virtue of frugality."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scrimp together"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scrimps together",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimping together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimped together",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimped together",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "scrimp together (third-person singular simple present scrimps together, present participle scrimping together, simple past and past participle scrimped together)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English phrasal verbs",
        "English phrasal verbs formed with \"together\"",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2020 March 13, Sara Smith, “2. Birth and the Territorial Body”, in Intimate Geopolitics. Love, Territory, and the Future on India’s Northern Threshold (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts), New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 40:",
          "text": "the families I had spoken with were betting their futures on education, with even relatively poor farmer families scrimping together money from here and there with their children’s futures in mind. This concern cut across class, with everyone feeling the pinch.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To amass in small amounts by virtue of frugality."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "amass",
          "amass"
        ],
        [
          "frugality",
          "frugality"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To amass in small amounts by virtue of frugality."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scrimp together"
}