noun
- Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.
- synonyms: parsimony, thrift, penny-pinching
- Extreme stinginess.
- synonyms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness
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