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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
economise .
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Examples
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Books and food should never be "economised" on, and it's better to get small amounts of very good stuff than large amounts of rubbish.
The Idler 2009
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(Sample size = those who economised, multiple answer)
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Q3: For each of the following spending categories, compared with last year how much have your or your family economised?
Mouse handedness 2009
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Towards the end, Alice fights the Jabberwocky Burton seems to have economised by borrowing animation from Harry Potter and goes home having chopped off its head and drunk its blood.
Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011
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(Sample size = those who economised, multiple answer)
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Towards the end, Alice fights the Jabberwocky Burton seems to have economised by borrowing animation from Harry Potter and goes home having chopped off its head and drunk its blood.
Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011
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Q5: To economise on your spending on evening meals changed, have you not just economised on shopping, but also been cooking economical menus?
Japanese weddings: What there should be more and less of 2009
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Not surprisingly, the lower the salary, the more people economised.
Japanese weddings: What there should be more and less of 2009
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Expenses in the city were to be economised, and they were to choose a council of the elder men, who should advise together, and lay before the people the measures which from time to time might be required.
The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007
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Today the three-bedroom house, near Baldock, sports a thick roof of thatch; but in Orwell's time the owner, a Mr Dearman, had economised by re-roofing the then two-bedroom house in corrugated iron sheets, which created a thunderous roar whenever it rained.
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