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skimping

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Synonyms and Antonyms of skimping

careful management of material resources

after years of skimping and saving, he was finally able to afford the sports car he had always wanted

Synonyms of skimping

economy, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, penny-pinching, providence, scrimping, thrift

Words Related to skimping

conservation, saving

miserliness, niggardliness, stinginess

belt-tightening, retrenchment

discretion, forehandedness, prudence

austerity, moderation, restraint, temperance

Near Antonyms of skimping

extravagance, improvidence, lavishness, prodigality, squandering

Antonyms of skimping

diseconomy, wastefulness

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