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Definition of economize in English: economize(British economise) verb ɪˈkɒnəmʌɪzəˈkɑnəˌmaɪz [no object]Spend less; reduce one's expenses. 节省,节俭 I have to economize where I can 能节省的地方我都得节省。 people on low incomes may try to economize on fuel 低收入者可能会试图节约燃料。 Example sentencesExamples - The father of two children said that he had to economize after the fuel crisis hit the country, including Bandung city, recently.
- It's a starting point, but if it's all you can earn, then you should expect to economize and reduce your expenses while you look for a way to earn a better income.
- The problem comes when trying to economize while buying insurance.
- But economising on expenditure creates tension and conflict.
- It's filled with ways to economize, substituting bread and noodles and cheese for meat, making cakes that don't use expensive butter or eggs, dressing up horrible processed things with tomato sauce or pimientos to make them palatable.
- And even without international travel, the debt rises, despite my best efforts to economize.
- The two new budget carriers can economise on costs by accessing training facilities locally.
- However, the councils, fire and police chiefs claim their budgets involve cutbacks and economising as they battle to keep rises to a minimum.
- While travel prices are up in the first three months of 2005, this will not discourage Americans from taking trips, but they will be looking for deals and ways to economize in order to save money without giving up their summer vacations.
- Attempts to shave costs by economizing on energy use reduce pollution.
- The financial sector is economizing on liquid money balances.
- With this sort of ‘sharecropping’ arrangement, stores no longer have strong incentives to economize in video purchase, reducing the queuing for customers.
- Rising prices get people to voluntarily economize on goods and services rendered scarcer by the disaster.
- In order to generate profits, the treadmill relies heavily on energy-intensive, capital-intensive technology, which allows it to economize on labor inputs.
- They do not fully understand that carrying out the work properly will bring them better and cheaper goods, economize on the use of tax revenue and stop corruption at its roots.
- If he had it he spent it and if he didn't he economised.
- Cement is the most expensive component of concrete, so there is often a tendency to economise by reducing the cement to a very small proportion.
- There is so much waste and mismanagement in government that the best way to balance the books is by economizing, streamlining, and cutting out the waste and spending the money you have more wisely.
- To economize, the backyards were left close to their original elevation.
- He believes the sum required for this could be provided by economising on administrative expenses.
Synonyms save (money), cut expenditure, cut costs cut back, make cutbacks, make cuts, retrench, husband one's resources, budget, be (more) economical, make economies, be thrifty, be sparing, be frugal, buy (more) cheaply, use less, reduce/decrease wastage, scrimp, scrimp and save, scrimp and scrape, cut corners, tighten one's belt, draw in one's horns, count the/your pennies, watch the/your pennies North American pinch the/your pennies US dialect rake and scrape
Derivativesnoun ɪkɒnəmʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n I refer to the increasing economization of our culture and the concomitant pressures bearing down on the churches to ‘market’ themselves to fickle religious ‘consumers’ in ways that distort or pervert the churches' message. Example sentencesExamples - We exist in an age in which print - the economization of writing - has an increasingly significant and precarious role in our lives.
- Cabin design, mass economization, and recycling have also been improved quite a bit in the last 50 years.
- There are some interesting moments in the paper, which recognizes a ‘linkage between culture and the economy’ that is ‘reflected in two associated processes: acculturation’ of the economy and economization of culture.’
- This interest is directed towards an analysis of the industrialisation and economisation of culture.
Definition of economize in US English: economize(British economise) verbəˈkänəˌmīzəˈkɑnəˌmaɪz [no object]Spend less; reduce one's expenses. 节省,节俭 I have to economize where I can 能节省的地方我都得节省。 people on low incomes may try to economize on fuel 低收入者可能会试图节约燃料。 Example sentencesExamples - If he had it he spent it and if he didn't he economised.
- And even without international travel, the debt rises, despite my best efforts to economize.
- They do not fully understand that carrying out the work properly will bring them better and cheaper goods, economize on the use of tax revenue and stop corruption at its roots.
- To economize, the backyards were left close to their original elevation.
- The problem comes when trying to economize while buying insurance.
- With this sort of ‘sharecropping’ arrangement, stores no longer have strong incentives to economize in video purchase, reducing the queuing for customers.
- The father of two children said that he had to economize after the fuel crisis hit the country, including Bandung city, recently.
- In order to generate profits, the treadmill relies heavily on energy-intensive, capital-intensive technology, which allows it to economize on labor inputs.
- It's a starting point, but if it's all you can earn, then you should expect to economize and reduce your expenses while you look for a way to earn a better income.
- He believes the sum required for this could be provided by economising on administrative expenses.
- There is so much waste and mismanagement in government that the best way to balance the books is by economizing, streamlining, and cutting out the waste and spending the money you have more wisely.
- The two new budget carriers can economise on costs by accessing training facilities locally.
- It's filled with ways to economize, substituting bread and noodles and cheese for meat, making cakes that don't use expensive butter or eggs, dressing up horrible processed things with tomato sauce or pimientos to make them palatable.
- But economising on expenditure creates tension and conflict.
- Attempts to shave costs by economizing on energy use reduce pollution.
- Rising prices get people to voluntarily economize on goods and services rendered scarcer by the disaster.
- The financial sector is economizing on liquid money balances.
- However, the councils, fire and police chiefs claim their budgets involve cutbacks and economising as they battle to keep rises to a minimum.
- Cement is the most expensive component of concrete, so there is often a tendency to economise by reducing the cement to a very small proportion.
- While travel prices are up in the first three months of 2005, this will not discourage Americans from taking trips, but they will be looking for deals and ways to economize in order to save money without giving up their summer vacations.
Synonyms save, save money, cut expenditure, cut costs |