Both Uses of
economize
in
The Time Machine
- 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.†
Chpt 6 *
- Very soon I had a choking smoky fire of green wood and dry sticks, and could economize my camphor.†
Chpt 9
Definition:
avoid waste or save money