frugal
1. careful when using money or food, or (of a meal) cheap or small in amount…
Meaning of
frugal
in English
frugal
adjective
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a frugal
lifestyle
a frugal
meal
of
bread
and
soup
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(Definition of
frugal
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frugal
| American Dictionary
frugal
adjective
us
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Lungren, a
fiscal
conservative
when it comes to
spending
taxpayers
’
money
, is frugal in his
personal
life
as well.
(Definition of
frugal
Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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frugal
| Business English
frugal
adjective
uk
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He
built
up his
savings
by being very frugal.
frugal
habits
/
living
/
lifestyle
Will
consumer
spending
bounce
back after the
recession
, or is there a new
spirit
of frugality?
It will
become
necessary
to use the Earth’s
resources
more frugally.
(Definition of
frugal
Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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Examples
of
frugal
In short, we welcome fast and
frugal
models because they make us re-think the dimensions of human judgment.
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Because water was the energy source powering the mines, it needed to be conserved, redistributed, and managed in an orderly and
frugal
manner.
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This commentary explores just how we should interpret this proposed replacement of logic and probability theory by fast and
frugal
heuristics.
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We do not know whether humans are successful when being fast and
frugal
.
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She should be a skilful and diligent household manager, responsible for methodical organization, cleanliness, tidiness and
frugal
budgeting.
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The combination of conceptual analysis, simulation, and experimentation has deepened our understanding of fast and
frugal
heuristics.
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Stimulus-driven indexing creates pointers that support fast and
frugal
cognition.
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Why should the prevalence of fast and
frugal
heuristics have any implications at all for the normative theories of logic and probability theory?
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People in this position might be living a
frugal
lifestyle in order to preserve their housing assets.
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We consider fast and
frugal
heuristics to represent bounded rationality in its purest form.
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What is the evidence for fast and
frugal
heuristics?
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This challenges the argument that fast and
frugal
models are more
frugal
than regression models, at least in terms of the number of cues searched.
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The first challenge is to explore fast and
frugal
heuristics for solving tasks beyond those we considered so far.
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Following our bounded rationality perspective, a fast and
frugal
mind need not employ a metalevel demon who makes optimal cost-benefit computations when selecting a heuristic.
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Asking at most three yes/no questions is a fast and
frugal
strategy for making a decision.
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