| Main Entry: | economy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving, frugality |
Synonyms: |
abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence, prudence, recession, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, scrimping, shrinkage, skimping, sparingness, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness |
Antonyms: |
spending, squandering |
| Concept: | Economy. |
| Category: | 4. Monetary Relations |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment., savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle ends; parsimony.
-verbs
be economical; practice economy; economize, save; retrench; cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way; husband (lay by)., save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.
-adjectives
economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious., underpaid.
-adverbs
sparingly; ne quid nimis.
-phrases
adde parvumparvo magnus acervus erit; magnum est vectigal parsimonia [Latin] [Cicero].
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Antonyms: |
liberality |
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| Main Entry: | austerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | refraining; abstinence |
Synonyms: |
abstemiousness, asceticism, chasteness, chastity, continence, determination, economy, prudence, puritanism, self-denial, self-discipline, sobriety, stoicism, strictness, temperance |
Antonyms: |
elaborateness, extravagance, indulgence, spending |
| Main Entry: | austerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grimness, barrenness |
Synonyms: |
baldness, bareness, dourness, economy, plainness, primitiveness, rusticism, severity, simplicity, spareness, spartanism, starkness, unadornment |
Antonyms: |
elaborateness, luxuriousness |
| Main Entry: | brevity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shortness, briefness |
Synonyms: |
conciseness, concision, condensation, crispness, curtness, economy, ephemerality, impermanence, pithiness, pointedness, succinctness, terseness, transience, transitoriness |
Antonyms: |
lengthiness, longevity, permanence |
| Main Entry: | conservation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | preservation |
Synonyms: |
attention, care, cherishing, conservancy, conserving, control, custody, directing, economy, governing, guardianship, guarding, keeping, maintenance, management, managing, preserval, preserving, protecting, protection, safeguarding, safekeeping, salvation, saving, stewardship, storage, supervising, supervision, sustentation, upkeep |
Antonyms: |
destruction, neglect, spending, squandering, waste |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reduction, diminution |
Synonyms: |
cutback, decrease, decrement, downsize, economy, fall, lessening, lowering, reduction, saving |
Antonyms: |
increase |
| Main Entry: | cutback |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decrease |
Synonyms: |
abatement, belt-tightening, curtailment, decline, decrement, economy, lessening, lowering, reduction, reversal |
Antonyms: |
increase, raise |
| Main Entry: | dispensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management |
Synonyms: |
administration, direction, economy, plan, regulation, scheme, stewardship, system |
| Main Entry: | efficiency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adeptness, effectiveness |
Synonyms: |
ability, abundance, adaptability, address, adequacy, capability, capableness, competence, competency, completeness, economy, effectualness, efficacy, energy, expertise, facility, faculty, know-how, performance, potency, power, powerfulness, productiveness, productivity, proficiency, prowess, quantity, readiness, resourcefulness, response, skill, skillfulness, suitability, suitableness, talent, thoroughness |
| Notes: | competence is a measure of the ability to perform a task; efficiency is a measure of the success achieved in the performance of a task |
Antonyms: |
helplessness, impotence, inability, incompetence, ineffectiveness, inefficiency, weakness |