"sparing" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sparing",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sparing",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "sparingly"
        },
        {
          "word": "sparingness"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal."
      ],
      "id": "en-sparing-en-adj-LRLyLWA~",
      "links": [
        [
          "Prudent",
          "prudent"
        ],
        [
          "restrained",
          "restrained"
        ],
        [
          "resource",
          "resource"
        ],
        [
          "careful",
          "careful"
        ],
        [
          "economical",
          "economical"
        ],
        [
          "frugal",
          "frugal"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "frugal"
        }
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "pesteliv",
          "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
          "word": "пестелив"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "ikonomičen",
          "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
          "word": "икономичен"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
          "word": "šetrný"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
          "word": "střídmý"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
          "word": "šetřící"
        },
        {
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
          "word": "parcus"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
          "word": "oszczędny"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sparing"
}

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "verb form"
      },
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "19 18 63",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "spare"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of spare"
      ],
      "id": "en-sparing-en-verb-UeSIuqld",
      "links": [
        [
          "spare",
          "spare#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sparing"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sparings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sparing (plural sparings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1830, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), The Manners of the Day, volume 2, page 322",
          "text": "The sparings of my frugality have, however, in a sufficient degree, augmented my originally scanty patrimony; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act by which something or someone is spared."
      ],
      "id": "en-sparing-en-noun-7~XQEmTD"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sparing"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "sparingly"
    },
    {
      "word": "sparingness"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more sparing",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most sparing",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Prudent and restrained in the use of resources; careful, economical or frugal."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Prudent",
          "prudent"
        ],
        [
          "restrained",
          "restrained"
        ],
        [
          "resource",
          "resource"
        ],
        [
          "careful",
          "careful"
        ],
        [
          "economical",
          "economical"
        ],
        [
          "frugal",
          "frugal"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "frugal"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "pesteliv",
      "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
      "word": "пестелив"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "ikonomičen",
      "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
      "word": "икономичен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
      "word": "šetrný"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
      "word": "střídmý"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
      "word": "šetřící"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
      "word": "parcus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "prudent and restrained in the use of resources",
      "word": "oszczędny"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sparing"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
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    {
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      },
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "spare"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "present participle and gerund of spare"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "spare",
          "spare#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "gerund",
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sparing"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English verb forms"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sparings",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sparing (plural sparings)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1830, Mrs. Gore (Catherine Grace Frances), The Manners of the Day, volume 2, page 322",
          "text": "The sparings of my frugality have, however, in a sufficient degree, augmented my originally scanty patrimony; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The act by which something or someone is spared."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sparing"
}