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Definition of Economises
1. economise [v] - See also: economise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Economises
Literary usage of Economises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Political Economy by Henry Fawcett (1865)
"Foreign Foreign commerce economises labour and capital, and commerce therefore
must exert some tendency towards increasing the ..."
2. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1888)
"In this way it does not require to receive so much heat in the furnace as would
otherwise lie the case, and thus economises fuel. ..."
3. Structure & Growth of the Mind by Sir William Mitchell (1907)
"As perceiving economises the trouble and risk of actual sensation, and imagining
economises perception, bringing the past and the distant to mind, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"A sultan economises by reducing his four hundred wives to two hundred ; a London
lady economises by giving up her carriage ; and a curate's wife does so by ..."
5. The Fortnightly Review (1875)
"By the aid of combination, which economises labour, by the creation of ...
True, machinery economises and dispenses with mere muscular strength. ..."
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