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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Budgeting money
balance
budget
budget something for something
budgetary
couponing
cut back
defund
draw/pull in your hornsidiom
economy
make ends meetidiom
on a shoestringidiom
pinch
pocket
put/lay something on/to one sideidiom
save (something) up
save on something
scrimp
set someone against someone
skimp
tighten your beltidiom

economize | American Dictionary

economize
verb[ I ]
us/ɪˈkɑn·əˌmɑɪz/
to intentionally reduce what you are spending or using:
You could economize on food by not eating in restaurants all the time.

economize | Business English

economize
verb[ I ]
(UK alsoeconomise)uk /ɪˈkɒnəmaɪz/us
to make an effort to save money, time, resources, etc.:
Shoppers are going for less expensive food in an effort to economize.
Outsourcing is mostly used as an economizing strategy.
The different stages of production are placed in close proximity, thereby economizing on transport costs.

Examples of economize

economize
We have omitted the data constructor from the definitions given in the paper to economize on notational clutter.
Any mechanisms for internalizing externalities, therefore, must economize on monitoring and enforcement resources and ideally cover their own costs.
Simplifying, that is, learning to live with fewer material possessions by economizing, yields a surplus of time which can itself be employed for better ends.
An additional aim was to explore ways to economize field surveys and yet produce accurate or even improved spatial distribution layers.
Lastly, while some farmers employed specialist fencing contractors, most economized by using their own workers to construct fences.
To economize on these costs, firms choose to order infrequently and carry stocks of the good in question.
One absolute last nitpicking detail: this is a lengthy study and could have been economized in certain key places.
So people have little incentive to economize on their use.
But when transaction costs are positive, the efficiency principle requires that the form that best economizes on these costs be adopted.
If monetary policy generates a positive nominal interest rate, banks perceive an opportunity cost of holding cash reserves and therefore economize on such holdings.
This is done using a pollution charge (t) that applies only at the end of production periods and therefore greatly economizes on monitoring.
A public accustomed to seeing science as an economizing tool could well become discouraged by such prospects.
Because of the 1997 reform, which requires that hospital deficits be borne exclusively by the provinces, they are very willing to economize.
When environmental resources are underpriced, there is little incentive on anyone's part to develop technologies that economize on their use.
It knows how much water to apply and when; it knows how to economize on water use when supplies are limited.
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