skimp
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Skimp on medical research, and your SimEarthlings are pestered by plagues.
From Time Magazine Archive
Skimp as he would in personal expenditure, on the house basis the two ends of Ranny's income simply wouldn't meet.
From The Combined Maze by Sinclair, May
They’ve a pretty good substitute for Skimp; at least I think that Bunty will play a good game.
From Betty Lee, Freshman by Grove, Harriet Pyne
Skimp, skimp, v.t. to give scanty measure, to stint: to do a thing imperfectly.—v.i. to be parsimonious.—adj. scanty, spare.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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