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Economize   /ɪkˈɑnəmˌaɪz/  /ikˈɑnəmˌaɪz/   Listen
Economize

verb
(past & past part. economized; pres. part. economizing)  (Written also economise)
1.
Use cautiously and frugally.  Synonyms: conserve, economise, husband.  "Conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit"
2.
Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of.  Synonyms: economise, save.  "The less fortunate will have to economize now"



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"Economize" Quotes from Famous Books



... plan! However, I won't lend you the money; I'll lend it Jake, which makes him responsible. But your pay's less than mine, and you'll have to economize ...
— Brandon of the Engineers • Harold Bindloss

... his own merits, as he knew himself to be perfectly incapable of any of those daring conceptions which lead to rapid fortune, as he was in no wise enterprising, he conceived but one means to achieve wealth, that is, to save, to economize, to stint himself, to pile ...
— Other People's Money • Emile Gaboriau

... pretense that it was necessary to economize; and, as was the invariable rule of the capitalists, the entire burden of the economizing process was thrown upon the already overloaded workers. This subtraction of twenty-five cents a day entailed upon the drivers and conductors and their families ...
— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

... paper, it is a much purer fuel than coal; and this is a quality which has proved of great advantage in the manufacture of steel, glass, and several other products. With the exception of one, and perhaps two concerns, no effort has been made to economize in the use of the new fuel. In our Union Iron Mills we have attached to each puddling furnace a small regenerative appliance, by the aid of which we save a large percentage of fuel. The gas companies will no doubt soon require ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885 • Various

... and systematically. On Monday morning Claude turned the washing machine before he went to work, and by nine o'clock the clothes were on the line. Enid liked to iron, and Claude had never before in his life worn so many clean shirts, or worn them with such satisfaction. She told him he need not economize in working shirts; it was as easy to iron six ...
— One of Ours • Willa Cather


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