"scrimp and save" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "scrimps and saves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimping and saving",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimped and saved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimped and saved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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        "1": "scrimp<> and save<>"
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I scrimped and saved to buy my first house.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 104:",
          "text": "All month he scrimped and saved until he raised the money.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To scrimp greatly; to economize; to live very frugally, particularly when saving for something."
      ],
      "id": "en-scrimp_and_save-en-verb-7mv0ARKL",
      "links": [
        [
          "scrimp",
          "scrimp"
        ],
        [
          "economize",
          "economize"
        ],
        [
          "frugally",
          "frugally"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "skimp and save"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "scrimp and save"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "scrimps and saves",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimping and saving",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimped and saved",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "scrimped and saved",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "scrimp<> and save<>"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I scrimped and saved to buy my first house.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Brit Bennett, The Vanishing Half, Dialogue Books, page 104:",
          "text": "All month he scrimped and saved until he raised the money.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To scrimp greatly; to economize; to live very frugally, particularly when saving for something."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "scrimp",
          "scrimp"
        ],
        [
          "economize",
          "economize"
        ],
        [
          "frugally",
          "frugally"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "skimp and save"
    }
  ],
  "word": "scrimp and save"
}