scrimping

A health care system that spends lavishly on people over 65, while scrimping on the young.

And he went on scrimping and saving and buying shares so as to have as large a stake in the silver future as possible.

I've no patience with all their scrimping, and sometimes I give thanks that poor Elizabeth is out of it all.

A new wig meant even greater scrimping than usual for Billy and his mistress.

In order to supplement the domestic scrimping, he again had to solicit the aid of Dona Luisa.

This meant borrowing and scrimping for several years,—a fact which had great bearing on the wife's illness later.