upon; open one's purse strings &c. (disburse) 809; spare no expense,
give carte blanche[Fr]. Adj. liberal, free, generous; charitable &c.
(beneficent) 906; hospitable; bountiful, bounteous; handsome;
unsparing, ungrudging; unselfish; open handed, free handed, full
handed; open hearted, large hearted, free hearted; munificent,
princely. overpaid. Phr. "handsome is that handsome does" [Goldsmith].
#817. Economy.—N. economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care,
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husbandry, good housewifery, savingness[obs3], retrenchment.
savings; prevention of waste, save-all; cheese parings and candle
ends; parsimony &c. 819.
cost-cutting, cost control.
V. be economical &c. adj.; practice economy; economize, save;
retrench, cut back expenses, cut expenses; cut one's coat according to
one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's
expenses,
pay one's way, pay as you go; husband &c. (lay by) 636.
save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy
day, save for a rainy day, provide against a rainy day, save against a
rainy day; feather one's nest; look after the main chance.
cut costs.
Adj. economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare,
sparing; parsimonious &c.819.
underpaid.
Adv. sparingly &c. adj.; ne quid nimis[Lat].
Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit[Latin]; magnum est
vectigal
parsimonia [Latin][Cicero].
#817a. Greed [excessive desire]—N. covetousness, ravenousness &c.
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adj.; venality, avidity, cupidity; acquisitiveness (acquisition) 775;
desire &c. 865.
[greed for money or material things] greed, greediness, avarice,
avidity, rapacity, extortion.
selfishness &c.943; auri sacra fames[Lat].
grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity.
V. covet, crave (desire) 865; grasp; exact, extort.
Adj. greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping;
rapacious;
lickerish[obs3].
greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a
wolf;
openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid|!, alieni appetens[Lat];
insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.
#818. Prodigality.—N. prodigality, prodigence|; unthriftiness[obs3],
waste; profusion, profuseness; extravagance; squandering &c. v.;
malversation. prodigal; spendthrift, waste thrift; losel[obs3],
squanderer[obs3], locust; high roller* [U.S.]. V. be prodigal &c. adj.;
squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow, blow in*;
pay through the nose &c. (dear) 814; spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust,
drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run
out, run through; misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve
after the hatchet[obs3]; burn the candle at both ends; make ducks and
drakes of one's money; fool away one's money, potter away one's money,
muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw away one's
money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose
that lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe[Fr]. Adj. prodigal,
profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel[obs3],
extravagant, lavish, dissipated, overliberal; full-handed &c. (liberal)