Usually means: Using less than is adequate.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. skimping: Merriam-Webster
  2. skimping: Collins English Dictionary
  3. skimping: Vocabulary.com
  4. Skimping, skimping: Wordnik
  5. skimping: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. skimping: Wiktionary
  7. skimping: Dictionary.com
  8. skimping: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Skimping: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Skimping: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. skimping: FreeDictionary.org
  12. skimping: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skimping: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skimping: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (skimping)

▸ adjective:  scanty; meagre; done inefficiently.

Similar:
scrimp, stint, scant, lean, scantling, niggard, meagre, spare, meager, starveling, more...

Opposite:
splurging, indulging, lavishing, spending generously

Types:
cutting corners, penny-pinching, being cheap, being stingy, being thrifty, more...

Adjectives:
such, daily, undue, serious, worth, sharp, little, great



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Similar:
scrimp, stint, scant, lean, scantling, niggard, meagre, spare, meager, starveling, more...

Opposite:
splurging, indulging, lavishing, spending generously

Types:
cutting corners, penny-pinching, being cheap, being stingy, being thrifty, more...

Adjectives:
such, daily, undue, serious, worth, sharp, little, great



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