as in to save
to avoid unnecessary waste or expense
had to scrimp and save for years in order to be able to afford a house
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Recent Examples of scrimp
While critics have argued for years that the health plans cost taxpayers too much, the industry also has come under fire more recently for allegedly scrimping on vital health care, even dumping hundreds of thousands of members whose health plans proved unprofitable.
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
To achieve these goals without scrimping on style, designers have made significant changes to today’s luxury bathrooms, reinventing their layouts, incorporating technology, and exploring a range of finishes and materials both punchy and pristine.
—Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2024
Inflation is causing people to scrimp – and splurge.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
While shopping, some chefs scrimped by choosing inexpensive products and sharing ingredients with one another.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2024
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Jason Ma, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2024
To achieve these goals without scrimping on style, designers have made significant changes to today’s luxury bathrooms, reinventing their layouts, incorporating technology, and exploring a range of finishes and materials both punchy and pristine.
—Dan Howarth, Architectural Digest, 30 Sep. 2024
Inflation is causing people to scrimp – and splurge.
—Betty Lin-Fisher, USA TODAY, 10 June 2024
While shopping, some chefs scrimped by choosing inexpensive products and sharing ingredients with one another.
—Rachel Bernhard, Journal Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2024
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To its credit, Doc is more adept at crafting moral dilemmas that force its characters to reckon with the cost of saving one child at the expense of another’s health, or a patient’s right to know a secret that could destroy his family.Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2025
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The inside covers of the notebooks were used to save a substantial collection of news clippings, an offbeat record of the world through those years of writing the book.Alexis Wright, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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Hotels and airlines are increasingly catering to high-dollar customers, who’ve been expanding their holiday travel plans while lower-income ones economize.J.J. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
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With profitability in mind, Illumination and DreamWorks Animation have found ways to economize production costs.Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 29 Oct. 2024
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Carter’s energy policy was later seen as prescient, decades before climate change became a national priority with a solution to conserve and wean the public off of fossil fuels.Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024
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And respect for wildlife — much of which is in peril — is the basis for conserving it.Benji Jones, Vox, 24 Dec. 2024
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Consider this your game plan for a lighter, brighter home with plenty of breathing room to spare.Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 30 Dec. 2024
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Could lives have been spared if the antenna — used for instrument approaches in poor visibility — was built elsewhere?Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 30 Dec. 2024
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Fashion That said, function should never offer an excuse to skimp on fashion.Avery Stone, People.com, 10 Jan. 2025
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That effort put into character designs from the very beginning might seem like an obvious necessity, but many other major developers have skimped on the process in recent years.Echo Apsey, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Scrimp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scrimp. Accessed 14 Jan. 2025.
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