倹約けんやく Common Noun Irregular Transitive I-adj English jmdict 1 noun (common) (futsuumeishi) noun or participle which takes the aux. verb suru transitive verb adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi) thrift;economy;frugality 彼は金をためるため何年間もけちけち倹約した。 He pinched and scraped for many years to save money.