husbandry, good housewifery, savingness†, 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 [Lat.]; magnum est vectigal
parsimonia [Lat.] [Cicero].
817a. Greed [excessive desire] — N. covetousness, ravenousness &c
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†.
greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a
wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid†, alieni appetens
[Lat.]; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.