scrimp

A pinching miser; a niggard.

To make too small or short; to shortchange.

to scrimp the pattern of a coat

The company scrimped on the design so badly that it ended up defective.

To limit or straiten; to put on short allowance.

For, as a general thing, the English merchant-ship scrimps her crew; but not so the English whaler.

There the Master scrimps his haggard sempstress of her daily bread, / There a single sordid attic holds the living and the dead.

To be frugal, whether to a reasonable and wise extent or to a miserly and unwise extent.

“Oh, Electra, jewel of women, darling of my heart, we are free at last, we roll in wealth, we need never scrimp again. It's a case for Veuve Cliquot!”

They had to scrimp each month to afford it out of pocket.

Short; scanty; curtailed.