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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
| Synonyms: | abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
| Antonyms: | spending, squandering |
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| Main Entry: | austerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refraining; abstinence |
| Synonyms: | abstemiousness, asceticism, chasteness, chastity, continence, determination, economy, prudence, puritanism, self-denial, self-discipline, sobriety, stoicism, strictness, temperance |
| Antonyms: | elaborateness, extravagance, indulgence, spending |
| Main Entry: | austerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grimness, barrenness |
| Synonyms: | baldness, bareness, dourness, economy, plainness, primitiveness, rusticism, severity, simplicity, spareness, spartanism, starkness, unadornment |
| Antonyms: | elaborateness, luxuriousness |
| Main Entry: | brevity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortness, briefness |
| Synonyms: | conciseness, concision, condensation, crispness, curtness, economy, ephemerality, impermanence, pithiness, pointedness, succinctness, terseness, transience, transitoriness |
| Antonyms: | lengthiness, longevity, permanence |
| Main Entry: | conservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preservation |
| Synonyms: | attention, care, cherishing, conservancy, conserving, control, custody, directing, economy, governing, guardianship, guarding, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, preserval, preserving, protecting, protection, safeguarding, safekeeping, salvation, saving, stewardship, storage, supervising, supervision, sustentation, upkeep |
| Antonyms: | destruction, neglect, spending, squandering, waste |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reduction, diminution |
| Synonyms: | cutback, decrease, decrement, downsize, economy, fall, lessening, lowering, reduction, saving |
| Antonyms: | increase |
| Main Entry: | cutback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decrease |
| Synonyms: | abatement, belt-tightening, curtailment, decline, decrement, economy, lessening, lowering, reduction, reversal |
| Antonyms: | increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | dispensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management |
| Synonyms: | administration, direction, economy, plan, regulation, scheme, stewardship, system |
| Main Entry: | efficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adeptness, effectiveness |
| Synonyms: | ability, abundance, adaptability, address, adequacy, capability, capableness, competence, competency, completeness, economy, effectualness, efficacy, energy, expertise, facility, faculty, know-how, performance, potency, power, powerfulness, productiveness, productivity, proficiency, prowess, quantity, readiness, resourcefulness, response, skill, skillfulness, suitability, suitableness, talent, thoroughness |
| Notes: | competence is a measure of the ability to perform a task; efficiency is a measure of the success achieved in the performance of a task |
| Antonyms: | helplessness, impotence, inability, incompetence, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, weakness |
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