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Definition
avoid waste
- It had never occurred to me until that moment that there was any need to economize them, and I had wasted almost half the box in astonishing the Upper-worlders, to whom fire was a novelty.Chapter 6 (73% in)
- Very soon I had a choking smoky fire of green wood and dry sticks, and could economize my camphor.Chapter 9 (46% in)
There are no more uses of "economize" in The Time Machine.
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