amarrete
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]amarrete (feminine amarreta, masculine plural amarretes, feminine plural amarretas)
- stingy; miserly
- 2016 October 7, “La reactivación demora en llegar y calienta los ánimos”, in Clarin[1]:
- Los organismos financieros internacionales dicen que apoyan, pero fueron amarretes a la hora de avalar los números económicos de la Argentina.
- The international financial organizations say they're supportive, but they were stingy when it came to endorse Argentina's economic figures.
Noun
[edit]amarrete m (plural amarretes, feminine amarreta, feminine plural amarretas)
Further reading
[edit]- “amarrete”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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