penny-pinching
Miserly with money
Penny-pinching is excessive frugality—being so careful with money that it becomes stingy or miserly.
The term suggests counting every penny, refusing to spend even small amounts: The company's penny-pinching led to understaffed departments.
As an adjective: a penny-pinching landlord who won't fix anything.
A penny-pincher is someone who habitually economizes to an extreme.
Excessively reluctant to spend
- tightfistedUnwilling to spend freely
- cheapskateStingy person
- scroogeMiserly, stingy person
- niggardlyExtremely reluctant to spend
closefisted · ungenerous · mean · chintzy · petty · hoarding · grasping · selfish
Allocating funds systematically
- thriftCareful use of resources
- savingsAccumulated money kept
- prudenceCareful, wise judgment
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
resourcefulness · scrimping · cost-conscious · practical · sensible
Reducing expenditures deliberately
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- layoffsMass job eliminations
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
- belt-tighteningReducing expenditures deliberately
streamlining · cutbacks · trimming · consolidation · outsourcing · restructuring
Subtractions from full price
- couponsRedeemable discount certificates
- salesRevenue from goods moved
- clearancePermitted passage or approval
- markdownsLowered retail prices
deals · bargains · wholesale · secondhand · comparison-shopping · haggling · bulk-buying · rebates
miserly
Excessively reluctant to spend
- tightfistedUnwilling to spend freely
- cheapskateStingy person
- scroogeMiserly, stingy person
niggardly · closefisted · ungenerous · mean · chintzy · petty · hoarding · grasping · selfish · skinflint
budgeting
Allocating funds systematically
conservation · resourcefulness · scrimping · cost-conscious · practical · sensible
cost-cutting
Reducing expenditures deliberately
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- layoffsMass job eliminations
- austerityEnforced economic stringency
belt-tightening · streamlining · cutbacks · trimming · consolidation · outsourcing · restructuring
discounts
Subtractions from full price
- couponsRedeemable discount certificates
- salesRevenue from goods moved
- clearancePermitted passage or approval
markdowns · deals · bargains · wholesale · secondhand · comparison-shopping · haggling · bulk-buying · rebates · freebies
- money managementsaving, savings, budgeting, budget planning, expense tracking
- frugalityfrugality, thrift, frugal, economize, scrimp
- Money-Saving Wordsthrifty, frugal, budget-conscious, cost-conscious, cost-cutting
- saving moneybudget, savings, discount, sale, coupon
- spending habitsspending habits, frugality, overspending, impulse buying, reckless spending
- stinginessstinginess, miserliness, miserly, stingy, tightfistedness
penny-pinchinglavish
Abundant beyond necessity
extravagant · openhanded · open-handed · generous · munificent
penny-pinchingprofligate
Recklessly extravagant or dissolute
spendthrift · extravagant · wasteful · squandering · prodigal
pinch, penny, pinching, economical, penury, pence, economizing, penurious, pincher