frugal

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/ˈfɹuːɡəl/

Definition of frugal

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste.

“frugal advice”
“By what a frugal man annually saves, he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands, for that or the ensuing year, but [also] establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.”

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adj

Careful or wise in expenditure; avoiding waste.

“frugal advice”
“By what a frugal man annually saves, he not only affords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands, for that or the ensuing year, but [also] establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.”
Obtained by or characterized by frugality.

“frugal fortune; frugal fare”
“frugal breakfast”
“[…] a frugal meal, which consisted of roots and tea,[…]”
“Pinching and paring he might furnish forth / A frugal board, bare sustenance, no more,[…]”

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From Middle French, from Latin frugalis (“virtuous, thrifty”). Displaced native Old English spærhende (literally “spare-handed”).

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