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economize

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To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income.

To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich.

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Truth is such a precious article let us all economize in its use. Mark Twain

The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself. Howard H. Aiken

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize. Franklin D. Roosevelt

he who will not economize will have to agonize. Confucius

Economize expenditure. Kashmir Proverb

Economize now or suffer want later. Chinese Proverb

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