shoestring operation

Last week the Wall Street Journal reported that the “shoestring” operation had been privately funded but overseen from Ukraine.

Over the years, they turned a shoestring operation into one with 10 full-time employees and a house full of sophisticated computer and video gear.

Shameless Hussy Press was a shoestring operation in 1969 when the poet known as Alta began publishing books from her house on a hand-cranked offset printer.

Grants from the National Recreation Trails program and the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office have also helped the shoestring operation, which provides the closest groomed nordic skiing to residents of Whatcom and Skagit counties.

Before moving to Kingland Crescent, Mr. Wyatt’s furniture restoration business was a shoestring operation.