hold/control the purse strings

idiom

: to make the decisions about how money is spent
The museum's board of directors holds/controls the purse strings.

Examples of hold/control the purse strings in a Sentence

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The corporations that control the purse strings don’t like it. Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2024 Yes, but: Hartzell won support from lawmakers — who control the purse strings at the public university — as well as the key donors and UT System Board of Regents, which rejected protesters' demands for the university to divest from companies doing business in Israel. Asher Price, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024 Do not let the MTA control the purse strings on congestion pricing. Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2024 As investment prospects darken, financiers increasingly view the game as a way to build 'guanxi' or connections with officials who hold the purse strings on local projects, especially those overseas investors might consider too risky. Fox News, 28 Aug. 2023 The people who control the purse strings — Senate Leadership Fund, Mitch McConnell. The Arizona Republic, 12 Nov. 2022 Now that millennials control the purse strings at many businesses, sales professionals are carving out new ways of closing deals on everything from business software to chemicals and office equipment. Lindsay Ellis, WSJ, 8 Nov. 2022 Club owners in the country’s top domestic leagues have final say over the agenda and control the purse strings. Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2022 With steep losses in recent memory, the investors who control the purse strings are keeping the companies on a tight leash. Justin Worland/houston, Time, 10 Mar. 2022

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“Hold/control the purse strings.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hold%2Fcontrol%20the%20purse%20strings. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.

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