spa: avaro

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means(noun) a stingy hoarder of money and possessions (often living miserably)
miser
means(adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
avaricious, greedy, prehensile, covetous, grasping, grabby
means(adjective) excessively unwilling to spend; "parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses"; "lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence"
penurious, parsimonious
means(adjective) unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"
stingy, ungenerous

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