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careful management of material resources people on fixed incomes are used to practicing economy Synonyms frugality, husbandry, parsimony, penny-pinching, providence, scrimping, skimping, thrift Related Words conservation, saving; miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess; belt-tightening, retrenchment; discretion, forehandedness, prudence; austerity, moderation, restraint, temperance Near Antonyms extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering Antonyms diseconomy, wastefulness
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