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Sparing

//ˈspɛəɹɪŋ// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal.
Adjective
  1. 1
    avoiding waste wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    The act by which something or someone is spared.

    "The sparings of my frugality have, however, in a sufficient degree, augmented my originally scanty patrimony; […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of spare form-of, gerund, participle, present

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