extreme unwillingness to spend money:
• The gap between government parsimony and the needs of sport is filled by commercial sponsorship.
— parsimonious adjective :
• Some accuse the government of being too parsimonious in financing education
— parsimoniously adverb
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parsimony UK US /ˈpɑːsɪməni/ US /ˈpɑrsɪməʊni/ noun [U] FORMAL DISAPPROVING
► unwillingness to spend money or to give things to people: »
There is no excuse for such corporate parsimony over staff salaries.
parsimonious adjective
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The government has been parsimonious in its spending on the arts.
Financial and business terms. 2012.