Word Meanings - ECONOMIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett . Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ECONOMIZE)
- Employ
- reapply
- economize
- occupy
- engage
- engross
- Retrench
- Reduce
- abbreviate
- diminish
- limit
- contract
- curtail
- lessen
- Spare Save
- afford
- grant
- reserve
- do without
- husband
- s o-o
- grudge
- discard
- omit
- forbear
- withhold
- refrain
- abstain
- Utilize
- Localize
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ECONOMIZE)
Related words: (words related to ECONOMIZE)
- RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - REVERSED
Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side, - DIMINISH
To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower. - LIMITARIAN
Tending to limit. - LIMITIVE
Involving a limit; as, a limitive law, one designed to limit existing powers. - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - LIMITABLE
Capable of being limited. - ECONOMIZE
To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income. Expenses in the city were to be economized. Jowett . Calculating how to economize time. W. Irving. - CONTRACTIBLE
Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot. - CANCELLATE
Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike. - HUSBANDABLE
Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood. - GRUDGEONS; GURGEONS
Coarse meal. - DIMINISHER
One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke . - REDUCE
To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from - LESSENER
One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers . - HUSBANDLESS
Destitute of a husband. Shak. - CANCEL
To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate; - ABSTAIN
To hold one's self aloof; to forbear or refrain voluntarily, and especially from an indulgence of the passions or appetites; -- with from. Not a few abstained from voting. Macaulay. Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt Shak. Syn. -- To refrain; - REFRAINMENT
Act of refraining. - CURTAILER
One who curtails. - UNEMPLOYMENT
Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent. - REENGAGEMENT
A renewed or repeated engagement. - UNLIMITED
1. Not limited; having no bounds; boundless; as, an unlimited expanse of ocean. 2. Undefined; indefinite; not bounded by proper exceptions; as, unlimited terms. "Nothing doth more prevail than unlimited generalities." Hooker. 3. Unconfined; not - TRANSPARENT
transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent - REDIMINISH
To diminish again. - SUBCONTRACTOR
One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor. - IMMIGRANT
One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant. - FLAGRANT
1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in