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watertight

[waw-ter-tahyt, wot-er-] / ˈwɔ tərˌtaɪt, ˈwɒt ər- /






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“It’s very hard to maintain quality control when you’re on a supertight, compressed schedule and very limited budget,” he said.

From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2010

Signals of the turn inside Trujillo's supertight Caribbean island nation are clear.

From Time Magazine Archive

After scrutinizing every agency's spending proposal�a feat performed by no other California Governor in memory�he offered a supertight budget of $11.3 billion for fiscal 1976.

From Time Magazine Archive

Utilities need special help because they rely mostly on borrowed money to expand and modernize, and they had severe trouble raising cash in last year's supertight credit markets.

From Time Magazine Archive

This piece had been pretty rough in practice so far, but some days, you just click — we were supertight through the whole tune.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick




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