Synonyms of the word

scrimp

• n. A pinching miser; a niggard.
• v. (transitive) To make too small or short; to scant; to contract; to shorten.
• v. (transitive) To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.
• v. (intransitive) To be frugal.
• adj. Short; scanty; curtailed.

save

• n. In various sports, a block that prevents an opponent from scoring.
• n. (baseball) When a relief pitcher comes into a game leading by 3 points (runs) or less, and his team wins…
• n. (professional wrestling, slang) A point in a professional wrestling match when one or more wrestlers run…
• n. (computing) The act, process, or result of saving data to a storage medium.
• n. (role-playing games) A saving throw.
• v. (transitive) To prevent harm or difficulty.
• v. To put aside, to avoid.
• prep. Except; with the exception of.
• conj. (dated) unless; except.

skimp

• v. (Scotland, Northern England) To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of.
• v. To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
• v. To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
• v. To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
• adj. (dated, Britain, dialect or US, colloquial) Scanty.
• n. A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
• n. (in the plural, colloquial) Underwear.

stint

• n. A period of time spent doing or being something. A spell.
• n. limit; bound; restraint; extent.
• n. Quantity or task assigned; proportion allotted.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To stop (an action); cease, desist.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To stop speaking or talking (of a subject).
• v. (intransitive) To be sparing or mean.
• v. (transitive) To restrain within certain limits; to bound; to restrict to a scant allowance.
• v. To assign a certain task to (a person), upon the performance of which he/she is excused from further labour…
• v. To impregnate successfully; to get with foal; said of mares.
• n. Any of several very small wading birds in the genus Calidris. Types of sandpiper, such as the dunlin or…
• n. Misspelling of stent (medical device).