impecunity
red cent
oofless
cash-starved
strapped for money
strapped for cash
low water
pennies on the dollar
moneyless
microbudget
wealthless
impecuniousness
pennilessness
penuriousness
cheapness
shoe string
poormouth
shoestring
obolary
moneylessness
impoverishment
penniless
poverty
poorness
princely sum
dollarless
scratch a living
potless
budget
pittance payment
impecunious
dime
penny-wise
privation
chicken feed
underearn
cut one's cloth to suit one's purse
tightness
stringency
in the bucket
pauperage
on a shoestring
underresourced
tightfistedness
microeconomy
tidge
trace
morsel
inexpensively
cheaply