skimp

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To deal with hastily, carelessly, or with poor material.
• intransitive verb To provide for or supply inadequately; be stingy with.
• intransitive verb To be stingy or very thrifty.
• adjective Scanty; skimpy.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Scant in quantity or extent; scarcely sufficient; meager; spare: as, skimp fare; a skimp outfit.
• To deal scant measure to; supply with a meager or insufficient allowance: as, to skimp a person in the matter of food.
• To provide in scant or insufficient quantity; give or deal out sparingly; stint: as, to skimp cloth or food.
• To scamp; slight; do superficially or carelessly: as, to skimp a job.
• To be sparing or parsimonious; economize; save.
• To scamp work.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
• transitive verb Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U. S. To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
• intransitive verb Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. To save; to be parsimonious or niggardly.
• adjective Prov. Eng. & Colloq. U.S. Scanty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp.
• verb To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp.
• verb To save; to be parsimonious or stingy.
• adjective dated, UK, colloquial Scanty.
• noun A skimpy or insubstantial thing, especially a piece of clothing.
• noun in the plural, colloquial Underwear.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
• verb limit in quality or quantity
• verb supply sparingly and with restricted quantities
• verb subsist on a meager allowance