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skimpingnoun careful management of material resourcesafter years of skimping and saving, he was finally able to afford the sports car he had always wanted economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, penny-pinching, providence, scrimping, thrift conservation, savingmiserliness, niggardliness, stinginessbelt-tightening, retrenchmentdiscretion, forehandedness, prudenceausterity, moderation, restraint, temperance diseconomy, wastefulness extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering skimpingverbpresent participle of skimpto avoid unnecessary waste or expensewe must skimp and save if we are going to afford a vacation this summer economizing, pinching, saving, scrimping, sparing conserving, husbanding, maintaining, managing, preservingscrapingcutting back, cutting down, retrenchinghoarding, laying up pinching pennies wasting blowing, dissipating, frittering (away), lavishing, misspending, running through, spending, squandering, throwing awaysplurging |