Related Clues:

• Time in the Army, e.g.
• Army hitch, e.g.
• Live frugally
• Limitation of effort
• Restrict to small allowance, be niggardly
• Do or spend less than is needed
• Skimp, stint
• Be niggardly with tints
• Be niggardly, or fixed amount of work
• Use or do less than is needed, be mean
• Pinch and save
• Subsist on a meagre allowance
• Be frugal and sparing
• If one is not alert, one removes the skin from a turn of it
• A bit of work - just a shade of it at last