doing without
Managing sans something
Doing without means managing in the absence of something, especially something normally considered necessary or desirable.
The phrase implies acceptance or endurance rather than mere lack: We'll have to do without a car this month.
It often carries a note of frugality or hardship: Growing up poor, she learned early about doing without.
- forgoingVoluntarily doing without
- missingNot present, whereabouts unknown
- lackingBeing without something
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- belt tighteningReducing expenditures deliberately
renunciation · deprivation · frugality · self-discipline · abnegation · improvisation · forfeiture · sacrifice · abstinence · cold turkey · restraint · simplicity · asceticism · absent · intentionality · eschewal · temperance · decluttering
- saving moneybudget, savings, discount, sale, coupon
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty