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Definition of Economizing
1. economize [v] - See also: economize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Economizing
Literary usage of Economizing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of National Economy by Thomas Nixon Carver (1921)
"CHAPTER XVI economizing LAND In a new country where land is abundant and labor
scarce the problem of economizing land is never acute. ..."
2. The Foundations of National Prosperity: Studies in the Conservation of by Richard Theodore Ely, Charles Kenneth Leith, Ralph Henry Hess, Thomas Nixon Carver (1917)
"... is that civilization is the progressive elimination of waste in the expenditure
of human energy, or the progressive economizing of that energy. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"On Hie Importa-iice of economizing Fuel in Iron-plated Ships. ... He proposed
the following methods for economizing fuel:—To proportion the boilers to the ..."
4. Principles of Rural Economics by Thomas Nixon Carver (1911)
"WAYS OF economizing LAND Importance of the question. For a country which is too
far advanced in civilization to be willing to acquire new lands by military ..."
5. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"... and when the only instance I know of your economizing money is your sending
me three expresses one after another on the same day all the ..."
6. Elements of Political Economy by Arthur Latham Perry (1866)
"... the transfer of capital from less to more productive hands, as on the facilities
which credit affords in economizing the general operations of exchange. ..."
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