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sparing

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sparing/ˈspeərɪŋ/

▶adjective moderate; economical.

– derivatives
sparingly adverb,
sparingness noun.

'sparing' also found in these Oxford entries:

economic - economical - frugal - parsimony - terse

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