| 单词 | frugality |
| 释义 | frugality (once / 4630 pages) n If you try to avoid waste by reusing and repurposing items that most people would throw away, your frugality will save you money. Some people use this word interchangeably with cheapness, but cheapness is an unwillingness to spend, while frugality is an unwillingness to waste. People who show frugality often find ways of making things useful that others do not. Even after the Depression ended, those who lived through it maintained their frugality, using old t-shirts for rags and washed-out cottage cheese containers instead of Tupperware. WORD FAMILYfrugality: frugalities+/frugal: frugalest, frugality, frugally, frugalness USAGE EXAMPLES“The majority of individuals everywhere . . . seem to associate happiness more with extravagance than with frugality.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) But Francis’s frugality and fondness for mingling with ordinary people predates him becoming pope. The Guardian(Dec 21, 2016) Former U.S. senator and a two-term Ohio governor who preached frugality in his personal and public life and occasionally bucked the GOP establishment. Seattle Times(Dec 14, 2016) n prudence in avoiding waste Syn|Hypo|Hyper frugalness parsimoniousness, parsimony, penny-pinching, thrift extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily economy, thriftinessfrugality in the expenditure of money or resources prudence discretion in practical affairs |
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