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Date: 1500-1600
Origin: strait 'narrow'; STRAIT

straitened

 adjective
     
strait‧ened formal
not having enough money, especially not as much as you had before:
the straitened circumstances of post-war Japan
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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