WASTENESS Antonyms

• the system of production and distribution and consumption

• the efficient use of resources

• frugality in the expenditure of money or resources

• an act of economizing; reduction in cost

• power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect

• capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects

• the ratio of the output to the input of any system

• skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort

• prudence in avoiding waste

• the activity of protecting something from loss or danger

• the condition of being (well or ill) preserved

• a process that saves organic substances from decay

• an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change

• the quality of being productive or having the power to produce

• (economics) the ratio of the quantity and quality of units produced to the labor per unit of time

• the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation

• the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems

• any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers

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

• the quality of being of practical use