cheeseparing

Thân thiện

The old man's cheeseparing habits meant he always mended his socks.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Excessively frugal or stingy: Describes someone who is unwilling to spend money or use resources, often to an extreme or petty degree.
   • Characterized by miserly economy: Refers to actions, policies, or attitudes that involve saving or withholding in a mean-spirited or overly cautious way.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The company's cheeseparing approach to employee benefits has hurt morale.
  • He was so cheeseparing that he would reuse teabags.
  • The project failed due to cheeseparing budget cuts that eliminated essential components.

Advanced Usage

• As a noun (less common): The act or practice of being stingy or saving in a petty way.
  • His cheeseparing over office supplies was a source of constant jokes among the staff.

Variants and Related Words

• Cheeseparer (noun): A person who is stingy or miserly.
  • He was known as a notorious cheeseparer who never contributed to office collections.

Synonyms

• Stingy
• Miserly
• Penny-pinching
• Parsimonious
• Niggardly
• Tightfisted

Related Phrases and Idioms

• Penny-wise and pound-foolish: This idiom describes a similar mindset of being overly careful with small amounts of money (cheeseparing) while being wasteful with large sums. It criticizes false economy.
  • Their cheeseparing on maintenance is penny-wise and pound-foolish; now they face a huge repair bill.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. giving or spending with reluctance
   • our cheeseparing administration
   • very close (or near) with his money
   • a penny-pinching miserly old man

Từ đồng nghĩa

• close
• near
• penny-pinching
• skinny