2 uses
(click/touch triangles for details)
Definition
avoid waste
- I could set about economizing in our way of living.Book 7 — Two Temptations (73% in)
- The measure would cause him some added expense and some diminution of income beyond what he had already undergone from the general depression of trade; and the Hospital presented itself as a principal object of outlay on which he could fairly economize.Book 7 — Two Temptations (55% in)
There are no more uses of "economize" in Middlemarch.
Typical Usage
(best examples)