Scrimp

The group had to scrimp, connive, and hustle in order to get by.

Don't scrimp on your health.

to scrimp the pattern of a coat

The company scrimped on the design so badly that it ended up defective.

For, as a general thing, the English merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English whaler.

There the Master scrimps his haggard sempstress of her daily bread, / There a single sordid attic holds the living and the dead.

“Oh, Electra, jewel of women, darling of my heart, we are free at last, we roll in wealth, we need never scrimp again. It's a case for Veuve Cliquot!”

They had to scrimp each month to afford it out of pocket.