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Economize   /ɪkˈɑnəmˌaɪz/  /ikˈɑnəmˌaɪz/   Listen
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Economize  v. t.  (past & past part. economized; pres. part. economizing)  (Written also economise)  To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. "Expenses in the city were to be economized." "Calculating how to economize time."



Economize  v. i.  (Written also economise)  To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich.






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"Economize" Quotes from Famous Books



... ever-varying gravities and gayeties, tears and laughter, grimsicalities and whimsicalities, prose and verse, he labored incessantly till his too early death. The whole was truly and entirely "Hood's Own." In mind he owed no man anything. Unfortunately, he did in money. That he might economize, and be free to toil in order to pay, he went abroad, residing between four and five years out of England, part of the time at Coblentz, in Rhenish Prussia, and part at Ostend, in Belgium. The climate ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various

... and is not at present burned for domestic use; but in proportion as coal becomes scarce, improved methods of burning it will assuredly be discovered, to prevent any sulphureous fumes from entering apartments, and also to economize the consumption of fuel in all our ...
— The Mirror, 1828.07.05, Issue No. 321 - The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction • Various

... and the high price of meat, however, render it advisable, even absolutely necessary, that we work all our resources instead of only a part of them, to economize whenever and wherever we can, and the waters in our midst and around us are surely one of the most important resources not ...
— Twenty-four Little French Dinners and How to Cook and Serve Them • Cora Moore

... is Sidney's best; and when that has been said, nothing remains but to economize in quoting. I will take three specimens only. First then, ...
— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... the tedious delay of this night's work, and constantly listening in dread for some sounds of struggle down the roadway. But all remained silent until I could dimly distinguish the returning hoof-beats of the Sergeant's horse; and so anxious was I to economize time that I was already urging our mounts forward when his shadow grew black in front, and he wheeled in at ...
— My Lady of the North • Randall Parrish


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