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scrimp

verb

1 scrimp

Subsist on a meager allowance:
— Scratch and scrimp.

synonyms: skimp, stint.

Roget 201: be short etc. adj.; render short etc. adj.; shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce; compress etc. ... show more

Dutch: karig


adjective

Roget 201: short, brief, curt; compendious, compact; stubby, scrimp; shorn, stubbed; stumpy, thickset, pug; chunky [U.S.], decurtate; ... show more

Roget 640: insufficient, inadequate; too little etc. 32; not enough etc. 639; unequal to; incompetent etc. (impotent) 158; weighed in the balance and found wanting;" ... show more

noun

Roget 819: parsimony, parcity; parsimoniousness, stinginess etc. adj.; stint; illiberality, tenacity.    avarice, greed etc. 817.1. ... show more

Moby thesaurus: begrudge, economize, enforce economies, exiguous, famish, grudge, husband, keep within compass, live upon nothing, make ends meet, manage, pinch, pinch pennies, poor, put something aside, save, save up, scamp, scant, scanty ... show more.

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scrimping

Moby thesaurus: Scotch, canny, careful, chary, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy, conserving, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curtailment, cutback, economic, economization, economizing, economy, economy of assumption, economy of means, elegance ... show more.

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