meaning of scrimp
1. To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.
2. Short; scanty; curtailed.
3. A pinching miser; a niggard.
4. subsist on a meager allowance; "scratch and
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