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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ə

l

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ˈfruː.ɡ

ə

l

/

careful

when using

money

or

food

, or (of a

meal

)

cheap

or

small

in

amount

:

a frugal

lifestyle

a frugal

meal

of

bread

and

soup

Synonyms

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(Definition of

frugal

from the

Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus

frugal
| American Dictionary

frugal

adjective

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ˈfru·ɡəl

/

careful

in

spending

money

:

Lungren, a

fiscal

conservative

when it comes to

spending

taxpayers

’

money

, is frugal in his

personal

life

as well.

(Definition of

frugal

from the

Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary

frugal
| Business English

frugal

adjective

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ˈfruːɡ

ə

l

/

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careful

to use only as much

money

,

food

, etc. as is

necessary

:

He

built

up his

savings

by being very frugal.

frugal

habits

/

living

/

lifestyle

frugal

energy

/

water

use

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

from the

Cambridge Business English Dictionary

Examples

of

frugal

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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