sparing

Plural: sparings

Verb

• Refraining from using or harming; exercising restraint or economy.
• refrain from harming
• save or relieve from an experience or action
• give up what is not strictly needed
• use frugally or carefully
• furnish with spars
• fight with spurs
• box lightly
• fight verbally
• present participle and gerund of spare

Adjective Satellite

• avoiding waste
  • "a sparing father and a spending son"
  • "sparing in their use of heat and light"

Adj

• Prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal.

Noun

• The act by which something or someone is spared.

Examples

• He was SPARING with his high-value tiles, waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

Synonyms

dispense with, economical, frugal, give up, part with, save, scotch, spar, spare, stinting, abstemious, canny, chary, cheap, close with a buck, husbandly, huswifely, parsimonious, penny-pinching, prudent, spareful, sparing, spary, thrifty, tight, tightwad

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