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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Skimp \Skimp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skimped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Skimping}.] [Cf. {Skinch}, {Scamp}, v. t.]
     1. To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp. [Prov. Eng. &
        Colloq. U.S.]
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     2. To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
        [Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S.]
        [1913 Webster]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  102 Moby Thesaurus words for "skimping":
     Scotch, canny, careful, chary, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy,
     conserving, cooling, cooling down, cooling off, culpably negligent,
     curtailment, cutback, derelict, economic, economization,
     economizing, economy, economy of assumption, economy of means,
     elegance, exiguous, forehanded, frugal, frugal to excess,
     frugality, inadvertent, inattentive, infrequent, labor-saving,
     laissez-faire, law of parsimony, lax, loose, low growth rate,
     meager, miserly, money-saving, neglectful, neglecting, negligent,
     niggardly, noninterfering, nonrestrictive, off-guard, overfrugal,
     overly permissive, parsimonious, parsimoniousness, parsimony,
     penny-wise, penny-wise and pound-foolish, permissive, piddling,
     pinching, poor, procrastinating, provident, prudent, prudential,
     rare, reduction of expenses, reduction of spending, relaxed,
     remiss, retrenchment, saving, scamping, scant, scanty, scarce,
     scattered, scraping, scrimping, scrimpy, seldom met with,
     seldom seen, skimpy, slack, slighting, slim, slowdown, slurring,
     spare, sparing, sparse, spotty, sprinkled, stingy, stinting, thin,
     thrifty, tight, time-saving, too frugal, uncircumspect, unguarded,
     unrigorous, unwary, unwasteful, unwatchful
  
  

















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