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skimp

verb

To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.

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The word “skimp” is correct and can be used in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone cutting costs or doing something on the cheap, usually to their own detriment. For example, you could say “John skimped on materials and ended up with a lower quality product.”.

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Deeply satisfying and simple to make, just don't skimp on the spinners (dumplings).

Rosey did not skimp on life.

Busy and careless people skimp on security: the typical internet user, research suggests, uses just seven passwords to manage 25 online accounts.

So don't skimp on introspection or waste the gift of choice.

Patients complained that HMOs encouraged doctors to skimp on care ("drive-through deliveries", with mothers ejected from hospital soon after birth, were particularly notorious).

The main question, however, remains how to balance incentives for efficiency with incentives to skimp.

So "there's no point in instituting a new business model unless it's…game changing .Message in the madness"When the going gets tough, the tough don't skimp on their ad budgets Knowledge@WhartonSeveral Wharton academics warn companies against cutting their advertising budgets in a downturn.

This, he writes, would eliminate the incentive for doctors and hospitals to run up costs (as they would be on the hook for them) and cut out the insurance-company middleman that wants to skimp on care.It is a good idea, which is why it is already known.

Firms may also skimp on non-wage benefits, trim the number of hours worked by low-paid staff, or cut other costs.

Two big mistakes were to choose a name that meant little to Russian drinkers, and to skimp on the advertising needed to establish the new label in the crucial markets of Moscow and St Petersburg.

He does not skimp on bandwidth or any other technology; and nobody can describe his premises as a data sweatshop.

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