Usually means: Using or giving in moderation.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word sparing:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. sparing: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sparing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sparing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sparing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sparing: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sparing, sparing: Wordnik
  7. sparing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sparing: Wiktionary
  9. sparing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sparing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sparing: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sparing: Dictionary.com
  13. sparing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Sparing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sparing: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sparing: Rhymezone
  17. Sparing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sparing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. sparing: Free Dictionary
  20. sparing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. sparing: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sparing: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sparing: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sparing: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal.
noun:  The act by which something or someone is spared.

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