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Significados de parsimony em inglês

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Extreme stinginess.

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parsimònia

Extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily.

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Examples for "thrift"
Examples for "thrift"
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Research sale days: Some people don't know that thrift shops have sales.
Ebony
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The thrift's other units include retail banking, commercial banking and credit cards.
Reuters
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Behind the thrift store were other buildings-officesand a modern dormitory-stylebuilding.
The devil's bones: a body farm novel
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Acquired from thrift stores after I was done with the flea market.
Wired
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Most thrift stores offer extremely low prices compared to their retail counterparts.
The South African
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Amerigo Bonasera had found this solution to the problem unseemly and penny-pinching.
The Godfather
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But no way was I falling for this guy's penny-pinching con job.
Sister Mine
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Some beach vendors say sales have sunk and complain about penny-pinching visitors.
Reuters
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Gateway's solution for the penny-pinching gamer set is the P-6831 FX.
Wired
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Tough times call for stiff drinks, penny-pinching, and a few more stiff drinks.
Wired
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parsimònia

Use of the minimum set of elements required to achieve a goal.

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Uso de parsimony em inglês
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Goodness-of-fit, parsimony and robustness under misspecification were used to identify candidate models.
Pubmed
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About the staging of the play there was a right Shakespearian parsimony.
A Wanderer in Venice
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Gifts are the last thing you expect after rehearsing for sheer parsimony.
The Guardian
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But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.
Pushing to the Front
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The shabby plainness of Wren's church well typified all the parochial parsimony.
The Pretty Lady
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As it was, he sought to veil his parsimony by conservative principle.
The Missing Bride
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I beg leave to tell him, that mere parsimony is not economy.
Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
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Sometimes Hugo used to protest, aghast at some petty act of parsimony.
Half Portions
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A parsimony-based approach to this problem has been proposed by Oberprieler et al.
Pubmed
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If so, his father has more to answer for than parsimony.
The Guardian
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He has the crime of prodigality, and the wretchedness of parsimony.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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They now found that in enterprises like theirs, parsimony is the worst profusion.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
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For once the rigid parsimony of Frederic seemed to have relaxed.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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How to encourage prudence and economy, and at the same time discourage parsimony.
A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household
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But owing to parsimony he takes off his boots when crossing the swamps.
The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance
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Instead, the reasons for rejecting endless parsimony stack up higher and higher instead.
The Guardian
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Parsimony ao longo do tempo
Parsimony nas variantes da língua
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