as in to save
to avoid unnecessary waste or expense
in tough times people learn how to economize
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Recent Examples of economize
All four of them sewed—my mother and her sister-in-law, to economize on dresses for themselves and their daughters.
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Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
Hotels and airlines are increasingly catering to high-dollar customers, who’ve been expanding their holiday travel plans while lower-income ones economize.
—J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
With London looking to economize abroad, British diplomats told their American counterparts in February 1947 that the United Kingdom would withdraw from the eastern Mediterranean, leaving a power vacuum in Greece and Turkey.
—Melvyn P. Leffler, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
The idea—so far just a proposal before the U.S. aerospace community—is to economize on propellant by using its mass just for momentum, rather than burning it for energy.
—Philip E. Ross, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2011
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Megan Marshall, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
Hotels and airlines are increasingly catering to high-dollar customers, who’ve been expanding their holiday travel plans while lower-income ones economize.
—J.j. McCorvey, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2024
With London looking to economize abroad, British diplomats told their American counterparts in February 1947 that the United Kingdom would withdraw from the eastern Mediterranean, leaving a power vacuum in Greece and Turkey.
—Melvyn P. Leffler, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
The idea—so far just a proposal before the U.S. aerospace community—is to economize on propellant by using its mass just for momentum, rather than burning it for energy.
—Philip E. Ross, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Jan. 2011
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for economize
Verb
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Our clean energy and wildfire prevention efforts are saving billions—both in disaster costs and everyday bills.—
MSNBC Newsweek,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
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My father had two superpowers that saved him in the face of all those failures—his talent for telling stories and gardening.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Mulch the root zone to conserve soil moisture.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
6 Nov. 2025
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In an effort to test its ability to conserve water, the city attempted to give up 7,000 acre-feet of water per year between 2023 and 2025 (the city received payment from the federal government in exchange).—
Austin Corona,
AZCentral.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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But the family portraits, excluded from the exhibition because of their Jewish heritage, were separated and ultimately spared.—
Jacqui Palumbo,
CNN Money,
11 Nov. 2025
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Earlier this year, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, a graveyard was spared by the fire that sent thousands of Los Angeles residents fleeing into the coal-black night.—
Vann R. Newkirk II,
The Atlantic,
10 Nov. 2025
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“Economize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/economize. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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