sparing

Etymology

adj

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

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of spare

noun

  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; […] 1830, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), The Manners of the Day, volume 2, page 322

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