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penny-pinchingadjective giving or sharing as little as possiblethe new CEO's penny-pinching ways have helped to keep the company out of bankruptcy cheap, chintzy, close, closefisted, mean, mingy, miserly, niggard, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, pinching, pinchpenny, spare, sparing, stingy, stinting, tight, tightfisted, uncharitable, ungenerous careful, chary, conserving, economical, economizing, frugal, saving, scrimping, skimping, thriftyacquisitive, avaricious, avid, coveting, covetous, desirous, grasping, greedy, hoggish, itchy, mercenary, rapacious, selfish, shabby, small, sordidbegrudging, envious, grudging, resentfulinhospitable bounteous, bountiful, charitable, freehanded, generous, liberal, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting altruistic, selfless, unselfishextravagant, free, handsome, lavish, overgenerous, profusebeneficent, benevolent, hospitable, humanitarian, philanthropic(also philanthropical)compassionate, good-hearted, greathearted, kindly, magnanimous, openheartedthriftless, unthriftydissipating, frittering, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift, splurging, squandering, wasteful, wasting careful management of material resourcesthey'll have to practice some penny-pinching if they want to save for a house economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift conservation, savingmiserliness, niggardliness, stinginessbelt-tightening, retrenchmentdiscretion, forehandedness, prudenceausterity, moderation, restraint, temperance diseconomy, wastefulness extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering the quality or practice of being overly sparing with moneyreusing your tea bags is perhaps taking penny-pinching too far cheapness, cheeseparing, closeness, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony, penuriousness, pinching, stinginess, tightfistedness, tightness conserving, economizing, economy, frugality, husbandry, providence, scrimping, skimping, thriftconservation, savinghusbanding, managing bountifulness, bounty, generosity, largesse(also largess), liberality, openhandedness, openheartedness, philanthropy, unselfishnessextravagance, lavishnessdissipation, improvidence, prodigality, squandering, wastefulness in 1935 |