All cut corners synonyms

verb cut corners

• economize — to practice economy; avoid waste or extravagance.
• scrimp — to be sparing or frugal; economize (often followed by on): They scrimped and saved for everything they have. He spends most of his money on clothes, and scrimps on food.
• cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
• conserve — If you conserve a supply of something, you use it carefully so that it lasts for a long time.
• keep — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
• collect — If you collect a number of things, you bring them together from several places or from several people.
• maintain — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
• spare — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
• store — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
• retrench — to cut down, reduce, or diminish; curtail (expenses).
• manage — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
• stint — to be frugal; get along on a scanty allowance: Don't stint on the food. They stinted for years in order to save money.
• shepherd — a male given name.
• skimp — to scrimp.
• amass — If you amass something such as money or information, you gradually get a lot of it.
• hoard — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
• squirrel — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
• cache — A cache is a quantity of things such as weapons that have been hidden.
• stash — to put by or away as for safekeeping or future use, usually in a secret place (usually followed by away): The squirrel stashes away nuts for winter.
• gather — to bring together into one group, collection, or place: to gather firewood; to gather the troops.
• treasure — wealth or riches stored or accumulated, especially in the form of precious metals, money, jewels, or plate.
• stockpile — a supply of material, as a pile of gravel in road maintenance.
• deposit — A deposit is a sum of money which is part of the full price of something, and which you pay when you agree to buy it.
• hold — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
• reserve — to keep back or save for future use, disposal, treatment, etc.
• curtail — If you curtail something, you reduce or limit it.
• save — to rescue from danger or possible harm, injury, or loss: to save someone from drowning.
• screw — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
• slight — small in amount, degree, etc.: a slight increase; a slight odor.
• pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
• scrape — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
• withhold — to hold back; restrain or check.
• scamp — an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.
• scant — barely sufficient in amount or quantity; not abundant; almost inadequate: to do scant justice.
• grudge — a feeling of ill will or resentment: to hold a grudge against a former opponent.
• restrain — to hold back from action; keep in check or under control; repress: to restrain one's temper.
• limit — the final, utmost, or furthest boundary or point as to extent, amount, continuance, procedure, etc.: the limit of his experience; the limit of vision.
• begrudge — If you do not begrudge someone something, you do not feel angry, upset, or jealous that they have got it.
• confine — To confine something to a particular place or group means to prevent it from spreading beyond that place or group.
• define — to describe the nature, properties, or essential qualities of
• cut back — If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it.
• make ends meet — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
• pinch pennies — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
• pay one's way — to settle (a debt, obligation, etc.), as by transferring money or goods, or by doing something: Please pay your bill.
• tighten one's belt — a band of flexible material, as leather or cord, for encircling the waist.
• salt away — a crystalline compound, sodium chloride, NaCl, occurring as a mineral, a constituent of seawater, etc., and used for seasoning food, as a preservative, etc.
• sock away — to strike or hit hard.
• lay aside — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• lay away — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
• pile up — an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other: a pile of papers; a pile of bricks.