Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To practice economy, as by avoiding waste or reducing expenditures.
- v. To make economical use of something: "The best that can be said for this method is that it economizes on thought” ( Christopher Hitchens).
- v. To use or manage with thrift: the need to economize scarce energy resources.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To manage economically; practise economy in regard to; treat savingly or sparingly: as, to economize one's means or strength; he economized his expenses.
- To practise economy; avoid waste, extravagance, or excess; be sparing in outlay: as, to economize in one's housekeeping, or in the expenditure of energy.
- Also spelled economise.
Wiktionary
- v. To practice being economical (by using things sparingly or in moderation, and by avoiding waste or extravagance).
- v. To be frugal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality.
- v. To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving.
WordNet 3.0
- v. use cautiously and frugally
- v. spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
Examples
“I don't think it's completely unreasonable to balk at the cost of college, as your co-blogger has, but I doubt the right way to economize is to sneak into the lectures.”
“People are learning how to conserve and economize, which is a great thing because we have been a wasteful society.”
“Certainly some male friends complain that their wives don't know the meaning of the word "economize" but most of my female friends are not that stupid.”
“As nearly all men in office, who have not a personal taste to satisfy, are well content, if they succeed in satisfying the public, we fear the Superintendent will be forced to "economize" on the keeping of the Park, as he was the past year, to a degree which will be as far from true economy as the cleaning of mosaic floors with birch brooms.”
“As an example of how deliberation can "economize" on moral disagreements, she cites the fetal tissue research guidelines issued in 1975 by the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.”
“Another Western US utility's management decided to "economize" by combining the SCADA functions with the company's corporate functions in a single computer.”
“One gets the feeling that words and phrases such as "economize" and "credit crunch" and”
“Cement is an expensive material, which provides a strong incentive for the contractor to "economize" in its use, with mutual distribution of the resulting "savings" Providing water for curing concrete, plaster, or mortar in brickwork, or for moisture control in embankment compaction, can also be a costly item for the contractor, who may have an incentive to reduce or eliminate its use, often with the collaboration of the inspector who may be under considerable pressure to cooperate.”
“He no longer bought books, and he economized in petty ways and sought to delay the inevitable end; though he did not know how to economize, and brought the end nearer by a week when he gave his sister Marian five dollars for a dress.”
“Defense Secretary Robert Gates wants to economize on some military operations, through only to pour the savings into other Pentagon programs.”
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