Economise

Definitions: Economise

Economise

Verb

1. Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of; "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now".

2. Use cautiously and frugally; "I try to economize my spare time".

Date "economise" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references)

Synonyms: Economise

Synonyms: conserve (v), economize (v), husband (v), save (v). (additional references)

Antonym: waste (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Economise

Specialty definitions using "economise": word size. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Economise your ammunition.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Economise" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 93.02% of the time. "Economise" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	93.02%	40	54,274
Lexical Verb (base form)	6.98%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	43	N/A

Language		Translations for "economise"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		节约 (Economize, Economized, Economizing, frugal). (various references)

Greek		κάνω οικονομίες (economise on). (various references)

Indonesian		mencermatkan (be accurate in). (various references)

Italian		economizzare (economize, retrench, save, skimp). (various references)

Korean		검약하십시�" (Economize). (various references)

Pig Latin		economiseay.(various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "economise": economised, economises. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: economies, monoecies.
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-m-n-o-o-s"
	-2 letters: incomes, mesonic, noisome, senecio, someone.
	-3 letters: comose, conies, cooees, cosine, eonism, eosine, icemen, icones, income, minces, monies, nieces, oscine, simoon, socmen.
	-4 letters: cense, cines, cions, coins, comes, cones, cooee, coons, cosie, eosin, icons, mense, mesic, mesne, meson, miens, mince, mines, monie, monos, moons, moose, neems, niece, noise, nomes, nomoi, nomos, noose, omens, onces, osmic, scene, scion, scone, seine, semen, since, sonic.
	-5 letters: cees, cine, cion, coin, come, cone, coni, cons, coon, coos, emes, emic, eons, ices, icon, ions, meno, mice, mien, mine, mise, miso, mocs, mono, mons, moon, moos, neem, nice, nims, noes, nome, noms, nose, omen, once, ones, seem, seen, seme, semi, sene, sice, sine, some, sone, soon.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-m-n-o-o-s"
	+1 letter: conominees, economised, economises, economizes.
	+2 letters: ceremonious, economizers.
	+3 letters: diseconomies, econometrics, econometrist, omnipotences, semicolonies, subeconomies.
	+4 letters: ceremoniously, chronometries, comprehension, contemporizes, decompression, econometrists, gonadectomies, oneiromancies, unceremonious.
	+5 letters: commonsensible, comprehensions, contemporaries, decommissioned, decompensation, decompressions, indecomposable, monoglycerides, overdominances, pneumoconioses, recommissioned, sedimentologic.
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