parsimony

Roget-categorie 819

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.9. Possessive relations
›› 5.9.4. Monetary relations

#819. Parsimony

zelfstandig naamwoord

parsimony, parcity^† — parsimoniousness^†, stinginess etc. adj. — stint — illiberality, tenacity.
avarice, greed etc. 817.1. miser, niggard, churl, screw, skinflint, crib, codger, muckworm^†, scrimp, lickpenny^†, hunks, curmudgeon, Harpagon, harpy, extortioner, Jew, usurer — Hessian [U.S.] — pinch fist, pinch penny.

werkwoord

be parsimonious etc. adj. — grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint.
drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain — cheapen, beat down — stop one hole in a sieve — have an itching palm, grasp, grab.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

parsimonious, penurious, stingy, miserly, mean, shabby, peddling, scrubby, penny wise, near, niggardly, close — fast handed, close handed, strait handed — close fisted, hard fisted, tight fisted — tight, sparing — chary — grudging, griping etc. v. — illiberal, ungenerous, churlish, hidebound, sordid, mercenary, venal, covetous, usurious, avaricious, greedy, extortionate, rapacious.

bijwoord

with a sparing hand.

uitdrukking

desunt inopioe multa avaritiae omnia [Lat.] [Syrus]; hoards after hoards his rising raptures hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill" [Goldsmith]; the unsunn'd heaps of miser's treasures" [Milton].

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