nickel-and-dime

nick·el-and-dime (nkl-n-dm) Informal

adj.

1. Involving or paying only a small amount of money: a nickel-and-dime job.

2. Minor; small-time: "a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single borrowed room" (New York).

v. nick·el-and-dimed or nick·eled-and-dimed, nick·el-and-dim·ing or nick·el·ing-and-dim·ing, nick·el-and-dimes or nick·els-and-dimes

v.intr.

To spend very little money.

v.tr.

1. To drain or destroy bit by bit, especially financially: nickel-and-dimed the project to death.

2. To accumulate in small amounts: "nickel-and-diming a substantial bankroll together" (Newsweek).

Thesaurus

Verb	1.	nickel-and-dime - spend money frugally; spend as little as possible penny-pinch expend, spend, drop - pay out; "spend money"
	2.	nickel-and-dime - accumulate gradually; "she nickeled-and-dimed together a small house for her family" scrape up, scrape, scratch, come up - gather (money or other resources) together over time; "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"
Adj.	1.	nickel-and-dime - of minor importance; "a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room"; "a small-time actor" small-time unimportant - not important; "a relatively unimportant feature of the system"; "the question seems unimportant"
	2.	nickel-and-dime - low-paying; "a nickel-and-dime job" cheap, inexpensive - relatively low in price or charging low prices; "it would have been cheap at twice the price"; "inexpensive family restaurants"

Translations

nickel-and-dime (US inf)

adj → billig; criminal etc → klein

vt to nickel-and-dime somebody → jdm sehr kleine (Geld)beträge abknöpfen (inf)