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skimp
[skimp]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be cheap or frugal about |
| Synonyms: | be mean with, be sparing, cut corners, make ends meet, pinch, pinch pennies, roll back, save, scamp, scant, scrape, screw, scrimp, slight, spare, stint, tighten one's belt, withhold |
| Antonyms: | spend, use, waste |
| Main Entry: | economical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conservative with resources; careful |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, canny, chary, circumspect, close, closefisted, cost-effective, curmudgeonly, efficient, frugal, meager, mean, methodical, miserly, money-saving, niggardly, on the rims, parsimonious, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penurious, practical, provident, prudent, prudential, saving, scrimping, skimping, spare, sparing, stingy, thrifty, tight, time-saving, unwasteful, watchful, work-saving |
| Notes: | economic means 'pertaining to the production and use of income' and economical is 'avoiding waste, being careful of resources' |
| Antonyms: | careless, expensive, uncareful, uneconomical, wasteful |
| Main Entry: | economize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | save money |
| Synonyms: | be frugal, be prudent, be sparing, conserve, cut back, cut corners, cut down, keep within means, make ends meet, manage, meet a budget, pay one's way, pinch pennies, retrench, run tight ship, scrimp, shepherd, skimp, stint, stretch a dollar, tighten one's belt |
| Antonyms: | spend, squander, throw away |
| Main Entry: | economy |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | neglect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fail to do; forget |
| Synonyms: | be careless, be derelict, be irresponsible, be negligent, be remiss, bypass, defer, discard, dismiss, disregard, elide, evade, gloss over, let pass, let slide, look the other way, lose sight of, miss, not trouble oneself, omit, overleap, overlook, overpass, pass over, postpone, procrastinate, shirk, skimp, skip, suspend, think little of, trifle |
| Antonyms: | accomplish, achieve, complete, do, finish, succeed |
| Main Entry: | pinch |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be stingy |
| Synonyms: | afflict, distress, economize, oppress, pinch pennies, press, scrape, scrimp, skimp, spare, stint |
| Antonyms: | be generous, give, offer |
| Main Entry: | save |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | economize; set money aside for later use |
| Synonyms: | amass, be frugal, be thrifty, cache, collect, conserve, cut corners, deposit, feather nest, gather, hide away, hoard, hold, keep, lay aside, lay away, maintain, make ends meet, manage, pile up, pinch pennies, put by, reserve, retrench, roll back, salt away, save for rainy day, scrimp, skimp, sock away, spare, squirrel, stash, stockpile, store, stow away, tighten belt, treasure |
| Antonyms: | squander, throw away, waste |
| Main Entry: | scrape |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be very frugal |
| Synonyms: | cut it close, get along, get by, pinch, save, scrimp, shave, skimp, stint, struggle |
| Antonyms: | spend, squander, waste |
| Main Entry: | scrimp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | economize |
| Synonyms: | be cheap, be economical, be frugal, be prudent, be sparing, conserve, curtail, cut back, cut corners, make ends meet, pinch pennies, run a tight ship, save, skimp, stretch a dollar, tighten one's belt |
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