scrimping (?.)
- Scotch
- canny
- careful
- chary
- cheeseparing
- chinchy
- chintzy
- conserving
- cooling
- cooling down
- cooling off
- curtailment
- cutback
- economic
- economization
- economizing
- economy
- economy of assumption
- economy of means
- elegance
- exiguous
- forehanded
- frugal
- frugal to excess
- frugality
- infrequent
- labor-saving
- law of parsimony
- low growth rate
- meager
- miserly
- money-saving
- niggardly
- overfrugal
- parsimonious
- parsimoniousness
- parsimony
- penny-wise
- penny-wise and pound-foolish
- piddling
- pinching
- poor
- provident
- prudent
- prudential
- rare
- reduction of expenses
- reduction of spending
- retrenchment
- saving
- scamping
- scant
- scanty
- scarce
- scattered
- scraping
- scrimpy
- seldom met with
- seldom seen
- skimping
- skimpy
- slim
- slowdown
- spare
- sparing
- sparse
- spotty
- sprinkled
- stingy
- stinting
- thin
- thrifty
- tight
- time-saving
- too frugal
- unwasteful