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单词 skimp
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skimp
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The verb skimp refers to using a limited amount of something. When tomato prices are high, a cost-conscious restaurant might skimp on the amount of chopped tomatoes it puts on salads.
Skimp can also describe getting by spending very little money, like someone who skimps in order to save for the future. You can also skimp on time and effort, like when you skimp on the amount of care you put into your math homework. Skimp is likely a variation of scrimp, which means "to make too small" and comes from the Swedish word skrumpna, meaning "to shrink, shrivel up."
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scrimp / skimp

These words are two sides of the same coin: ways to get more or to make something go further. One side is about saving; the other is about spending less.

Scrimp is the saving side of the coin. As an adjective, it means meager, scanty. To scrimp is to be sparing with or thrifty; to save slowly and with difficulty.

Many arts and physical education programs landed on the chopping block, while schools often were forced to scrimp and improvise in bizarre ways.

And the university has been scrimping even on bare necessities--like vacuuming the floors.

Skimp, which most likely derives from scrimp, is the spending-less side of the coin. As an adjective, it also means meager or barely enough. To skimp is to give barely enough or to save by getting barely enough.

One came out just last week showing that people who skimp on sleep seem to have higher blood cholesterol than people who sleep more.

Although this should be a standard part of everyone's holiday preparation, too many people skimp on having time for themselves.

Yet the idiom is to scrimp and save. But, then, idioms do not necessarily mean the same as the sum of their parts:

But many indigent parents still scrimp and save just to send their children to school, hoping that their kids will have shot at success.

The difference between scrimp and skimp is slight, and if the news media is any indication, even that is disappearing quickly.

WORD FAMILY
skimp: skimped, skimping, skimps
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Yahoo offers a cautionary tale to companies that, facing a turnaround or pressure to keep costs down, opt to skimp on security budgets.
Time(Dec 15, 2016)
It even skimps on those two assets, holding them back for a franchise that may never exist.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 08, 2016)
The only way that skimping ever does: higher bills, user fees, and hidden government subsidies.
The Guardian(Nov 22, 2016)
1v work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
Syn|Hyper
scant
work
exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity
2v supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
Syn|Hyper
scant, stint
furnish, provide, render, supply
give something useful or necessary to
3v limit in quality or quantity
Syn|Hyper
scant
restrict
place under restrictions; limit access to
4v subsist on a meager allowance
Syn|Hyper
scrimp, stint
save
spend less; buy at a reduced price
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