parsimonious

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WOTD – 15 December 2015

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Hyphenation: par‧si‧mon‧i‧ous

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parsimonious (comparative more parsimonious, superlative most parsimonious)

Exhibiting parsimony; sparing in the expenditure of money; frugal to excess.
Synonyms: penurious, niggardly, stingy, tight-fisted
- 1898, William Graham Sumner, “The Conquest of the United States by Spain”, in War and Other Essays, New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, published 1911, →OCLC, page 333:
  Our fathers would have an economical government, even if grand people called it a parsimonious one, and taxes should be no greater than were absolutely necessary to pay for such a government.
- 2002 January, “55 great personal-finance ideas”, in Kiplinger's Personal Finance, volume 56, number 1, Washington, D.C.: Kiplinger Washington Editors, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 53, col. 3:
  The first three college-savings plans stand out for their parsimonious expenses […]
Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures.
- 2006, Richard Bonneau [et al.], “The Inferelator: An Algorithm for Learning Parsimonious Regulatory Networks from Systems-biology Data Sets de Novo”, in Genome Biology, volume 7, number 5, London: BioMed Central, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMCID, page R36:
  Statistical methods offer the ability to enforce parsimonious selection of the most influential potential predictors of each gene's state.
(sports) Not conceding many goals.
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Exhibiting parsimony

Using a minimal number of assumptions, steps, or conjectures

(sport) not conceding many goals