Entry Word: economy

Function: noun

Meaning: careful management of material resources <people on fixed incomes are used to practicing economy>

Synonyms frugality, husbandry, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift

Related Words conservation, saving; miserliness, stinginess; discretion, prudence

Near Antonyms extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering

Antonyms wastefulness