ECONOMISER Synonyms

• avoiding waste

• excessively unwilling to spend

• extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

• giving or spending with reluctance

• careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment

• someone who saves something from danger or violence

• someone who saves (especially money)

• careful and diligent in the use of resources

• mindful of the future in spending money

• closely constrained or constricted or constricting

• of such close construction as to be impermeable

• firmly or closely

• in an attentive manner

• pulled or drawn tight

• set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration

• pressed tightly together

• (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity

• affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow

• of textiles

• securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid

• (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched

• very drunk

• exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• packed closely together

• fruit preserved by cooking with sugar

• keep constant through physical or chemical reactions or evolutionary change

• keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction

• use cautiously and frugally

• preserve with sugar

• subsist on a meager allowance