Parsimony - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈpɑːrsəməʊnɪ|
Brit.
|ˈpɑːsɪmənɪ|
noun
- extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily (syn: penny-pinching, thrift)
- extreme stinginess (syn: closeness, meanness, tightness)
- extreme stinginess (syn: closeness, meanness, tightness)
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The charity was surprised by the parsimony of some larger corporations.
...her parsimony was so extreme that she'd walk five miles to the store to save a few cents on gas...
Due to official parsimony only the one machine was build.
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