parsimony

Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

noun

1. extreme care in spending money;
reluctance to spend money unnecessarily
• Syn:
parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching
• Derivationally related forms:
penny-pinching (for: penny-pinching), thrifty (for: thrift), parsimonious (for: parsimoniousness), parsimonious
• Hypernyms:
frugality, frugalness
2. extreme stinginess
• Syn:
meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness,
tightness, tightfistedness, closeness
• Derivationally related forms:
close (for: closeness), tightfisted (for: tightfistedness), tight (for: tightness), parsimonious (for: parsimoniousness), parsimonious, niggardly (for: niggardliness), mingy (for: minginess), mean (for: meanness)
• Hypernyms:
stinginess
• Hyponyms:
pettiness, littleness, smallness, miserliness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness, thrift, penny-pinching