词汇 | economizing |
释义 | economizing present participle ofeconomize economize verb[ I ] (UK usuallyeconomise)uk /iˈkɒn.ə.maɪz/ us /iˈkɑː.nə.maɪz/ to try to save money by reducing the amount that you are spending: 节约,节省;紧缩开支 economize onYou could economize on food by not eating in restaurants all the time.你要是不总去饭店吃饭,就可以在吃上节省很多。 A lot of companies are trying to economize by not taking on new staff.很多公司为了尽可能节省开支,都不再雇用新员工。 Compare husbandverbformal Budgeting money balance budget budget something for something budgetary couponing cut back cutback defund draw/pull in your hornsidiom economize economy economy drive manage on a shoestringidiom put/lay something on/to one sideidiom save (something) up save on something set someone against someone shoestring tighten your beltidiom Examples of economizingeconomizing In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. 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. A public accustomed to seeing science as an economizing tool could well become discouraged by such prospects. Success depended upon concentrating force at the decisive point, economizing it elsewhere, and employing surprise to multiply the impact of the offensive. The role of agricultural cooperatives is shown to help overcome these limitations in order to take advantage of the transaction-cost economizing properties of family farms. Indeed, beyond the point of showing science's historical tendency toward economizing on effort, science education might even become self-defeating. Arms-length, anonymity, self-interest, and value-free economizing are not all there is to the purchase and the sale. As they saw it, economizing on transaction costs was a comparative static approach to a decision that had a dynamic of learning and innovation at its core. Williamson has argued that economizing on transaction costs is the main drive in the decision about an efficient governance form. Economizing the use of nitrogen fertilizer in wheat production through enriched compost plus urea-amended soil, indicating more stability of composted organic wastes over uncomposted organic wastes32. This information has, however, to be reviewed in the light of the present urgent need for economizing man-power, even if this means postponing certain activities which are desirable in themselves. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The chairs were specially designed for export, economizing on space and packaging requirements for transportation. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The successful strategy was to deploy capital economizing techniques, and reinvesting profits rather than borrowing. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. And as we have seen, this meant primarily economizing on military expenditures, as these comprised the bulk of the federal budget. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. While seemingly irrational, the cognitive biases may be interpreted as the result of bounded rationality, with human beings making decisions while economizing time and effort. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Jointness is aimed at satisfying the requirements for increasing efficiency and economizing the security budget. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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