straitened
adjective/ˈstreɪtnd/
/ˈstreɪtnd/
[only before noun] (formal)- without enough money or as much money as there was before
- The family of eight was living in straitened circumstances.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryStraitened is used with these nouns:- circumstance
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