scrimping
Being extremely frugal
Scrimping is being extremely careful with money or resources, often to the point of deprivation.
The word carries a sense of pinching pennies out of necessity rather than choice: Years of scrimping and saving finally paid off.
To scrimp is to economize severely, cutting corners wherever possible.
Reserving for future use
- cutting backDecreasing amount or extent
- belt-tighteningReducing expenditures deliberately
- cost-cuttingReducing expenditures deliberately
- economizingReducing expenditures deliberately
rationing · stretching · conserving · making do · counting pennies · living lean · doing without · cutting corners
Providing less than needed
- shortchangingGiving back too little
- stintingRestricting supply grudgingly
- meagerDeficient in quantity
- bare-bonesReduced to essentials
inadequate · sparse · scanty · paltry · minimal · limited · deficient · lean
Extreme reluctance to spend
- tightfistedUnwilling to spend freely
- stingyUnwilling to spend freely
- parsimoniousExcessively unwilling to spend
- cheapskateStingy person
pinchpenny · miserly · thrifty · sparing · niggardly · skinflint · tight · mean
saving
Reserving for future use
- cutting backDecreasing amount or extent
- belt-tighteningReducing expenditures deliberately
- cost-cuttingReducing expenditures deliberately
economizing · rationing · stretching · conserving · making do · counting pennies · living lean · doing without · cutting corners · retrenchment
skimping
Providing less than needed
- shortchangingGiving back too little
- stintingRestricting supply grudgingly
- meagerDeficient in quantity
bare-bones · inadequate · sparse · scanty · paltry · minimal · limited · deficient · lean · short
penny-pinching
Extreme reluctance to spend
- tightfistedUnwilling to spend freely
- stingyUnwilling to spend freely
- parsimoniousExcessively unwilling to spend
cheapskate · pinchpenny · miserly · thrifty · sparing · niggardly · skinflint · tight · mean · close-fisted
- frugalityfrugality, thrift, frugal, penny-pinching, economize
- Money-Saving Wordsthrifty, frugal, economical, budget-conscious, cost-conscious
- saving moneybudget, savings, discount, sale, coupon
- Depression survivalbread lines, soup kitchens, Hoovervilles, making do, darning
- bargainsbargain, bargain hunting, discount store, coupon, rebate
- cutbackscutback, cutbacks, decrease, layoff, reduction
scrimpingsplurging
Spending freely, excessively
squandering · lavishing · extravagant · profligate · improvident
scrimpinggenerosity
Readiness to give freely
lavish · lavishing · open-handed · munificent · bountiful