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PURSE STRINGS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Financial resources or support
Example:
who controls the purse strings in this family?
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("purse strings" is a kind of...):
cash in hand; finances; funds; monetary resource; pecuniary resource (assets in the form of money)
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