austerity
/aw-STAIR-ih-tee/nounsternness of manner; severe economic restraint
“Years of austerity hollowed out the transit budget.”
- Synonyms
- frugality, belt-tightening, severity
- Antonyms
- extravagance, abundance
- Memory hook
- austere economics: comfort cut to the bone.
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