Miser - English meaning

noun

A person or thing that accumulates something.

Usage examples:

He's a voracious accumulator of economic facts and data

adjective

Characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.

Usage examples:

An ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labour

noun

A person who follows an ascetic life.

Usage examples:

The composition of hymns of the rig-veda was done by hindu recluses, ascetics, rishis and sages roo…

noun

A miserly person.

Usage examples:

She told him he was a cheapskate

noun

Someone unwilling to give or spend any money

Usage examples:

That cheapskate won’t even pay for a postage stamp.

noun

A person who collects things of a specified type, professionally or as a hobby.

Usage examples:

An art collector

noun

Someone who collects certain things as a job or as a hobby

Usage examples:

An avid art collector, he owned at least a dozen picassos.

noun

A person who collects a particular type of object as a hobby or investment

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Art/coin/stamp, etc. collector, he became an avid collector of rare stamps., bill/debt/tax collector

noun

A person who collects or gathers things from numerous places.

Usage examples:

Nut gatherers harvest so many nuts that few if any seedlings are taking root

noun

A person who hoards things.

Usage examples:

I'm a bit of a hoarder

noun

A person or organization that collects a lot of money or objects, sometimes secretly

Usage examples:

Hoarders of gold and silver

noun

A long-tailed crow with boldly marked (or green) plumage and a noisy call.

Usage examples:

The corvines - crows, rooks, jays, magpies and jackdaws - are relentless stealers of other birds' e…

noun

A bird with black-and-white feathers and a long tail

noun

A mean or small-minded person.

Usage examples:

Dole-office meanies

noun

Someone who is unkind

Usage examples:

Don't be such a meanie!

noun

Someone who has money as their main interest and does anything possible to get a lot of it

Usage examples:

They thought that doctors were lazy money-grubbers with time on their hands., the statement made he…

noun

A mean or ungenerous person; a miser.

Usage examples:

Tis open before your eyes… and he who owns it is not a niggard in its use.

adjective

Ungenerous; niggardly.

noun

A person who is unwilling to spend money

Usage examples:

He takes offense at the notion he's a penny-pincher, insisting all his workers are paid above minim…

noun

A miserly person.

Usage examples:

A pinchpenny watchdog of public spending

adjective

Showing an unwillingness to spend money

Usage examples:

After a year of marriage, i was growing tired of my husband's pinchpenny ways., the film was shot o…

noun

A member of a group of english protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the reformation of the church under elizabeth i as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.

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From its inception there had been a committed protestant minority who aspired to complete a full pr…

adjective

Relating to the puritans.

Usage examples:

A puritan parliamentarian

noun

A person who regularly saves money through a bank or recognized scheme.

Usage examples:

A cut in base rate usually means less income for savers

suffix

Something that makes it possible for you to use less of a particular thing

Usage examples:

A time-saver, a space-saver, interest in offshore accounts is paid gross, allowing savers to delay …

noun

Someone who spends as little money as possible and is not generous

Usage examples:

He's a mean old scrooge!

noun

A person who spends as little money as possible; a miser.

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Scots are dispelling their stereotype of being skinflints who hoard their money and live austere li…

noun

An agile tree-dwelling rodent with a bushy tail, typically feeding on nuts and seeds.

Usage examples:

Tree-dwelling squirrels have lovely bushy tails, and we realised that the little ones, from the loo…

verb

Move in an inquisitive and restless manner.

Usage examples:

They were squirrelling around in the woods in search of something

noun

A kind of tree-dwelling rodent with a long bushy tail

noun

A mean or miserly person.

Usage examples:

He is a notorious tightwad

noun

A person who is not willing to spend money