(n.) The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance.
(n.) A sparing use; sparingness; as, frugality of praise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg.
(2) If using old leftovers feels a little wartime in its frugality: even better.
(3) Frugal billionaire Ingvar Kamprad, founder of the flatpack furniture chain Ikea , buys his clothes at flea markets to save money, he has said in a documentary to be broadcast on Swedish television.
(4) "The politics of frugality" has come to dominate the American political scene, but the President's choices to reduce spending on human resource programs by $18 billion are more apparent than real.
(5) She has created the Chicago Free & Frugal app and blogs at mykindoftownandaround.blogspot.com .
(6) Frugal fare Conscious of both the health of their bank balances and the health of their families, Britain's shoppers are increasingly turning to home cooking, rather than fast food.
(7) Baby boomers are now reviled because we seem to have shaped society to suit ourselves: free university education (my student debt, owed to a frugal friend, was £120 when I left); on the property ladder at just the right time (first house in Wimbledon, bought in 1982, cost £31,000); and never had to worry about internships (I’d never even heard of them when I was a student) or jobs.
(8) But this overlap of quality and frugality goals is only partial.
(9) Hence, it was a rare, if short-sighted, frugality by New Labour to cut spare places.
(10) The Glazers must've expected that they were getting a wee, ginger, fledgling Ferguson; David Moyes surely imagined that the great day had come after years of stability and prudence at Goodison Park, frugally guarding the Toffees, he was finally to be given the reigns of the all-conquering devils.
(11) He has been frequently criticised for his frugal operation of the Clippers, although in recent years he has spent heavily to add stars such as Paul and Rivers, who led the team back to the play-offs in his first year as coach.
(12) When Zhang was fired on Monday, he became the latest victim of president Xi Jinping's frugality and anti-corruption drive – an effort fuelled in no small part by an exasperated public set on exposing the country's extreme wealth gap with mobile phone cameras and microblogs.
(13) Peace is a way of life; a life based in voluntary frugality and elegant simplicity.
(14) Scarcity is what drives this frugal mindset – and the world is waking up to it with economic recession in the west,” he adds.
(15) Her Majesty's approach to party food is somewhat frugal.
(16) He faced still more sharp criticism from the Pryor camp for a frugal vote against federal disaster relief funding before a tornado struck the state earlier this year, killing 16 people.
(17) But his dedication to social justice and commitment to alleviating poverty may now have counted in his favour – and much has been made of his humility and frugal lifestyle.
(18) Most women had had a frugal breakfast and had nursed their infants 2 hours prior to the sampling of blood and milk.
(19) In 2008 petrol prices and utility bills soared, prompting motorists and households to be more frugal.
(20) The lack of spending commitments at Camp David reflects the present frugality of governments in America and Europe .
Prudence
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being prudent; wisdom in the way of caution and provision; discretion; carefulness; hence, also, economy; frugality.
Example Sentences:
(1) The arches can be restored with atraumatic fixed prostheses but prudence is required.
(2) With every year and every budget its continued use was an annual testament to dependability, continuity and fiscal prudence.
(3) The unexpected presence of this previously unknown ADH variant in livers of M. nemestrina demonstrates the need for prudence in assignment of ADH isozymes.
(4) Although studies to date have failed to show conclusively that nurses and pharmacists are at risk to the carcinogenic, genotoxic and reproductive effects of these agents, prudence would dictate that every effort be taken to minimize their exposure during the handling and disposal of antineoplastic drugs.
(5) Until these data are available, we must maintain prudence in the selection (design) of premedicant regimens and carefully monitor all children receiving these "cocktails."
(6) Rather than get rid of the baby with the bathwater, could we not link morality with prudence and target abusive claims?
(7) He has six children: Prudence, from his first marriage, to Patricia; three by his second wife, Anna, who he divorced in 1999; and two young children with his current wife, Wendi.
(8) With care and prudence, many of these lesions can be successfully excised, or at least managed, so that the effect of these sometimes devastating lesions can be ameliorated.
(9) The Glazers must've expected that they were getting a wee, ginger, fledgling Ferguson; David Moyes surely imagined that the great day had come after years of stability and prudence at Goodison Park, frugally guarding the Toffees, he was finally to be given the reigns of the all-conquering devils.
(10) When using topical methods, prudence should prevail to avoid ingestion of fluoride.
(11) An appeal is made for prudence and not hysteria in relation to the use of mineral fibres of all types.
(12) And with the return of big-spending policies to combat the downturn, we have the tearing-up of the early Brown emphasis on prudence.
(13) We suggest that, though some prudence and caution is advised, this appears to be a safe and feasible adjunct in the treatment of cholelithiasis.
(14) The problem is very common, and it is hoped that with continued clinical prudence we can advance and improve our treatment modalities, particularly in those areas in which we fall so short!
(15) These findings draw attention to the cardiovascular side effects of interferon-alpha and advise prudence in high-risk patients.
(16) Odey, a veteran City agitator who has picked fights ranging from opposition to Railtrack's nationalisation to "shorting" the shares of struggling banks, was once married to Murdoch's oldest daughter, Prudence.
(17) "That is going to take some time, some care, and some prudence."
(18) Up the date any response is noted but the authors think that some prudence is necessary in the evaluation of the results especially because of the incomplete removal of disc in young patients.
(19) For this reason the authors recommend prudence and avoidance of very strong treatment.
(20) Appalling way to run an economy no wonder many top EU countries laugh at our so called economic "prudence".