ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

save money, invest money; put out to interest; provide for a rainy day, save for a rainy
day, provide against a rainy day, save against a rainy day; feather one's nest; look after
the main chance.
cut costs.
Adj. economical, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious &c
819.
underpaid.
Adv. sparingly &c adj.; ne quid nimis [Lat.].
Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit [Lat.]; magnum est vectigal parsimonia
[Lat.] [Cicero].
817a. Greed [excessive desire] -- N. covetousness, ravenousness &c adj.; venality,
avidity, cupidity; acquisitiveness (acquisition) 775; desire &c 865.
[greed for money or material things] greed, greediness, avarice, avidity, rapacity,
extortion.
selfishness &c 943; auri sacra fames [Lat.].
grasping, craving, canine appetite, rapacity.
V. covet, crave (desire) 865; grasp; exact, extort.
Adj. greedy, avaricious, covetous, acquisitive, grasping; rapacious; lickerish † .
greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed,
extortionate, exacting, sordid † , alieni appetens [Lat.]; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable,
quenchless; omnivorous.
818. Prodigality -- N. prodigality, prodigence † ; unthriftiness † , waste; profusion,
profuseness; extravagance; squandering &c v.; malversation.
prodigal; spendthrift, waste thrift; losel † , squanderer † , locust; high roller [U.S.].
V. be prodigal &c adj.; squander, lavish, sow broadcast; pour forth like water; blow,
blow in [Slang]; pay through the nose &c (dear) 814; spill, waste, dissipate, exhaust,
drain, eat out of house and home, overdraw, outrun the constable; run out, run through;
misspend; throw good money after bad, throw the helve after the hatchet † ; burn the
candle at both ends; make ducks and drakes of one's money; fool away one's money,
potter away one's money, muddle away one's money, fritter away one's money, throw
away one's money, run through one's money; pour water into a sieve, kill the goose that
lays the golden eggs; manger son ble en herbe [Fr.].
Adj. prodigal, profuse, thriftless, unthrifty, improvident, wasteful, losel † , extravagant,
lavish, dissipated, overliberal; full-handed &c (liberal) 816.
penny wise and pound foolish.
Adv. with an unsparing hand; money burning a hole in one's pocket.
Phr. amor nummi [Lat.]; facile largiri de alieno [Lat.]; wie gewonnen so zerronnen [G.];
les fous font les festins et les sages les mangent [Fr.]; spendthrift alike of money and of
wit [Cowper]; squandering wealth was his peculiar art [Dryden].
819. Parsimony -- N. parsimony, parcity † ; parsimoniousness † , stinginess &c adj.; stint;
illiberality, tenacity.
avarice, greed &c 817.1.