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cheeseparing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective cheeseparing has 1 sense
- cheeseparing(s = adj.all) close, near, penny-pinching, skinny - giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"
THESAURUS
cheeseparing
Scotch, canny, careful, chary, cheap, chinchy, chintzy, close, closefisted, conserving, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, curtailment, cutback, economic, economization, economizing, economy, economy of assumption, economy of means, elegance, exiguous, forehanded, frugal, frugal to excess, frugality, grudging, illiberal, infrequent, labor-saving, law of parsimony, low growth rate, meager, mean, miserly, money-saving, niggardly, overfrugal, parsimonious, parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching, penny-wise, penny-wise and pound-foolish, penurious, piddling, pinching, poor, provident, prudent, prudential, rare, reduction of expenses, reduction of spending, retrenchment, saving, scamping, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scraping, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with, seldom seen, shabby, skimping, skimpy, slim, slowdown, spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, stingy, stinting, thin, thrifty, tight, tightfisted, time-saving, too frugal, unwasteful
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