Skimp

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To deal with hastily, carelessly, or with poor material: concentrated on reelection, skimping other matters.
  • v. To provide for or supply inadequately; be stingy with: accused them of skimping defense funding.
  • verb-intransitive. To be stingy or very thrifty.
  • adj. Scanty; skimpy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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. Scanty.
  • n. A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
  • n. Underwear.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
  • v. To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
  • verb-intransitive. To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly.
  • adj. Scanty.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To deal scant measure to; supply with a meager or insufficient allowance: as, to skimp a person in the matter of food.
  • To provide in scant or insufficient quantity; give or deal out sparingly; stint: as, to skimp cloth or food.
  • To scamp; slight; do superficially or carelessly: as, to skimp a job.
  • To be sparing or parsimonious; economize; save.
  • To scamp work.
  • Scant in quantity or extent; scarcely sufficient; meager; spare: as, skimp fare; a skimp outfit.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
  • v. limit in quality or quantity
  • v. supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
  • v. subsist on a meager allowance
  • Verb Form
    skimped    skimping    skimps   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    work    restrict    furnish    provide    supply    render    save   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    scant    scrimp    save    scanty    economies   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blimp    blimp    chimp    crimp    imp    limp    pimp    primp    scrimp    shrimp