The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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vb. (present participle of economize English)
Usage examples of "economizing".
The Twin Pillars policy seemed so successful that even after the United States pulled out of Vietnam, Washington stuck with it as a way of economizing on U.
It is not yet ten years since we were all boasting that swords and guns were useless things, and that military expenditure might be cut down to any minimum figure that an economizing Chancellor of the Exchequer could name.
Yet these two noble and intelligent creatures, united by the indissoluble ties of maternal and filial love, had succeeded in tacitly understanding one another, and economizing their stores, and Albert had been able to tell his mother without extorting a change of countenance, -- "Mother, we have no more money.
She shook her head, whispering faintly, "We'd be so terribly alone" Economizing reaction mass, they had to make most of the flight in free fall.
Did you ever stop to think how long forty years could be--forty years of striving and straining, of pinching and economizing, of serving and sacrificing?
She knew Willi and her party were not in the business, had never been in the business, of economizing when it cost political power to do so.