sparing
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sparing (comparative more sparing, superlative most sparing)
- Prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:frugal
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prudent and restrained in the use of resources
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sparing
- present participle and gerund of spare
Noun edit
sparing (plural sparings)
- The act by which something or someone is spared.
- 1830, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), The Manners of the Day, volume 2, page 322:
- The sparings of my frugality have, however, in a sufficient degree, augmented my originally scanty patrimony; […]
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Indonesian edit
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sparing
- (colloquial) to practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
- Synonym: berlatih
Further reading edit
- “sparing” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English sparring.
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sparing m inan
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Declension of sparing
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sparing | sparingi |
genitive | sparingu | sparingów |
dative | sparingowi | sparingom |
accusative | sparing | sparingi |
instrumental | sparingiem | sparingami |
locative | sparingu | sparingach |
vocative | sparingu | sparingi |
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