cheap out
verb- To reduce costs on a project or product to an unreasonable degree; to cut corners. · That's not the kind of product you want to cheap out on.
- To act cheap; to unreasonably refuse to spend money. · I could never marry someone who cheaps out like that.
- To be too stingy to achieve a purpose or provide a promised product/service/project. · I was cheaped out of having a good vacation because the hotel's marketing misled me.
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