Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cash-strapped
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ the cash-strapped school district
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But while Stockton councillors yesterday agreed to put £19,000 towards the costs, cash-strapped Middlesbrough said they could spend no more than £10,000.
▪ He's paid more than the bosses who run his cash-strapped city.
▪ His cash-strapped employers jumped at the offer.
▪ The cash-strapped Hammers will sell the £600,000 signing from Luton in October 1990, as long as the price is right.
Wiktionary
cash-strapped
a. Without funds; low on or out of money.
Usage examples of "cash-strapped".
The manned program—delays to the Space Station, cancellations by the cash-strapped Russians—had taken too much out of NASA's budget.
We don't know anything that anyone would want, and as for the usual grab-and-ransom, we've got to be the most cash-strapped Traders in the entire habitat.
On the other hand, their debt had suddenly appeared canceled the day after Flindyk's arrest, and not long after, vendors had contacted them, offering ship's supplies, and when Jellico said they were cash-strapped, each vendor had insisted that they had a line of credit good enough to supply their needs for blasting off.