frugal
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General adjective
Sparing and economical with money or resources.
Their frugal habits built a quiet fortune.
Business adjective
Achieving results with minimal expenditure of resources.
Frugal engineering let the team ship a viable device at a tenth of the incumbent's cost.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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