&lti/ noun the quality orcharacteristic of being frugal (NOTE: noplural)

careful when you spend money or use re-sources  He lived a frugal life and died a

To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious, To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance, obsolete To desist; to stop; to refrain, transitive verb_ To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save, To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy to, To deprive one's self of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with, To give or grant out of one's resources; afford, adjective_ Kept in reserve, Free for other use; unoccupied, Not elaborate or ornate; simple, noun_ A replacement, especially a tire, reserved for future need, An opening in a gown or petticoat; a placket, The score so made

Avoidance of excess expenditure; economy, Economy in expenditure or outlay, or in the use of materials, money, etc.; avoidance or prevention of waste or loss in any operation, especially in expending one's earnings, Exception; reservation, adjective_ Avoiding unnecessary expense or waste; frugal; not lavish or wasteful; economical, Making reservation or exception, bringing about salvation or redemption from sin, verb_ Present participle of save,

A married man; a man who has a wife; -- the correlative to wife, A man in a marriage or marital relationship, especially in relation to his spouse, obsolete The male head of a household; one who orders the economy of a family, verb_ use cautiously and frugally, transitive verb_ rare To cultivate, as land; to till, rare To furnish with a husband, To conserve