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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being stingy; extreme avarice; niggardliness; miserliness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being stingy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A lack of generosity.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money

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