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Make Something Last By Frugal Use Crossword Clue

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99%6Exact Match!
verb

• supplement what is thought to be deficient

• live from day to day, as with some hardship

• make by laborious and precarious means

• obtain with difficulty

35%3Make frugal use of, with "out"
noun

• (obsolete except Britain) An addition.

• A small stand on which a beehive is placed.

• A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space: see http//www.dave-cushman.net/bee/eke.html

verb

• Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.

adverb

• Also; in addition to.

27%4 What frugal people make do with
adjective

• (comparative of `little' usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree

adverb

• used to form the comparative of some adjectives and adverbs, indicates that the adjective or adverb is less of something

• comparative of little

adjective satellite

• (usually preceded by `no') lower in quality

• (nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer

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