Crossword clues for economise
The Collaborative International Dictionary
economise \economise\ v. t. same as economize.
Syn: conserve, husband, economize.
Economize \E*con"o*mize\ ([-e]*k[o^]n"[-o]*m[imac]z), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Economized ([-e]*k[o^]n"[-o]*m[imac]zd); p. pr. & vb. n. Economizing.] [Cf. F. ['e]conomiser.] To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. [Written also economise.]
Expenses in the city were to be economized.
--Jowett
(Thucyd. ).
Calculating how to economize time.
--W. Irving.
Economize \E*con"o*mize\, v. i.
To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and
saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich. [Written also
economise.]
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of economize. For suffix, see -ize. Related: Economised; economising.
Wiktionary
vb. (standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling economize English)
WordNet
v. spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now" [syn: save, economize]
use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time"; "conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit" [syn: conserve, husband, economize] [ant: waste]
Usage examples of "economise".
Carreras was economising on his guards: I could see only two of them, hard-faced, unshaven characters with a tommy gun apiece.
Generous to a fault of course, temperamental, no economising or any idea of the sort, always snapping at the bone for the shadow.
I was sorry to have vexed the poor fellow, and said no more, thinking the priest might have taken a fancy to economise for the count's profit or his own.
Had I remained in office as President of the Grand Trunk, undoubtedly I should have laboured hard to bring about such a consummation, which undoubtedly would have economised capital and hastened the completion of the great Interoceanic work.
As for clothes, she had enough to last her till the end of her days, and she economised on the light by going to bed at dusk.
This vacuum economised the graphite points between which the luminous arc was developed—an important point of economy for Captain Nemo, who could not easily have replaced them.
The wife keeps herself busy then, devotes herself to handling specie, verdigrises her fingers, takes charge of the breeding of the tenants, the bringing up of the farmers, convokes lawyers, presides over notaries, harangues justices, visits pettifoggers, follows up lawsuits, writes out leases, dictates contracts, feels herself sovereign, sells, buys, regulates, promises and compromises, binds and cancels, cedes, concedes, and retrocedes, arranges, deranges, economises, wastes.
It was needful to economise severely, to make possible the great alterations he must introduce.