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скупая
 скупой
gen. avaricious; stingy; sparing; scanty; poor; covetous
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скупать vstresses
скупать по дешёвке
gen. pre-empt; corner; engross; forestall; regrate; buy up
Gruzovik buy up; corner (impf of скупить)
fig. scoop up (The largest chunk of wealth in North America is now no longer tied up in buildings or machinery, it’s in urban residential land, which Prof. Patrick Condon maintains the global rich are now scooping up like stocks and bonds. (vancouversun.com) ART Vancouver)
law take up (товары)
скупаться v
gen. be bought up (быть скупленным)
скупой adj.
gen. avaricious; stingy; sparing (with на + acc. pl., with); scanty; poor (of light, soil, sun, etc.); covetous; chary; churlish; close; illiberal; near; tight-fisted; penurious; miserly; mean; cheeseparing; grasping; hard; niggard; screwy; scrimpy; tight; close-fisted; curmudgeonly; griping; grudging; handfast; hard-fisted; mean-spirited; narrow-fisted; pinchpenny; ungenerous; costive; pinching; near the bone; close as a clam; closefisted (Ista); short (перен. short on something; Paladino lays out plan but is short on details – Паладино излагает план, но скуп на детали; Lisa Maldonado is short on facts and long on personal attacks – Лиса Мальдонадо скупа на факты, зато щедра в переходах на личности Баян); close fisted; hard fisted; mean spirited; narrow fisted; tight fisted; managing; scarce (The reality is that you're producing a great deal with very scarce resources. I. Havkin); avid; careful; hardfisted (jagr6880); mean-hearted (Sergei Aprelikov); penny pinching; parsimonious; skimpy; niggardly; anear; close handed; fast handed; miserable; sneaking; spare; stinted; strait; strait-handed; tenacious; strait waistcoat; weak; meager (of rainfall, supplies, rations, etc.); economical (о жесте, движении Побеdа); curmudgeon; skinny (VLZ_58)
Gruzovik miser
amer., inf. Scotch
dial. having
dial., Scotl. narrow
fig. stiff (в значении "сдержанный", например, о движениях Abysslooker); hide
Gruzovik, fig. inadequate; scraggy
idiom. close as wax (Miserly. Interex)
inf. mingy; penny-pinching; cheese-paring (Khazanova)
Makarov. churly; ironfisted; lean (о стиле, слоге); shabby
obs. avarous; scant; streight
poetic, arch. nigh
rel., christ. greedy
slang cut-rate cut rate; penny-pincher; skin; small; snide; tightwad; cheap; tightwad (someone who avoids spending money Val_Ships)
uncom. saving
vulg. tight as a fart; tight-assed
скупо adv.
gen. meanly; scantily; scantly; near; anear; close; miserably; narrowly; nearly; parsimoniously; shabbily (Aly19); stinting oneself; tersely; penuriously; covetously; frugally; husbandly; niggardly; ungenerously; tenaciously; grudgingly
Gruzovik sparingly; stingily
Игорь Миг telegraphically
obs. avariciously; sneakingly
vernac. lousily
скуп adj.
gen. coemption (всего количества товара); engrossing; forestalling
Gruzovik, obs. buying up; cornering
obs., inf. buying up; cornering
"Скупой" adj.
lit. The Miser (1668, комедия Мольера)
Скупа adj.
prop.name Skupa
скупойприжимистый adj.
slang chintzy (Don't be chintzy. Give thе man a dollar for a cup of coffee. Не будь скупым. Дай мужику доллар на чашку кофе. Interex)
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