economize

That’s an area of discretionary spending where consumers tend to economize first, Faucher says.

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

Heuristics is the fancy term for the human readiness to shove phenomena into categories into which they don’t quite fit, mainly to economize on mental effort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026

Even if some consumers are feeling skittish about Thanksgiving, experts are quick to point out there are always ways to economize for the holiday.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2025

Another way couples economize on weddings is to have that dream destination wedding, knowing that some people just won’t go.

From Slate ● Apr. 29, 2024

Mother had spent a good bit of money buying us new outfits so that we would make a good impression in California, and she thought she ought to economize on train accommodations.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey

Monique Louvigny, an event coordinator in the San Francisco Bay Area, economizes where she can.

From New York Times ● Jan. 6, 2024

Even laboratory mice, if deprived of food, can enter a state called torpor, a kind of standby mode that economizes energy.

From New York Times ● May 25, 2023

“That’s one of the reasons why he’s a pretty effective leader — it’s because he economizes words,” said Josh Holmes, a former chief of staff for Mr. McConnell who remains close to him.

From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2018

Rotation of crops economizes the natural plant food of the soil and also that which is applied in the form of manure and fertilizer.

From The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich

“The East economizes space and the West time”—that also is much truer than most epigrams.

From Letters from China and Japan by John Dewey

She began with an incisive reading of Webern’s Six Pieces for Orchestra, keeping her conducting elegantly restrained, even economized — gestures that befitted this sharply angled, brief set.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024

Jewison economized by having his cinematographer use a hand-held camera instead of fancier equipment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

Jane and Maria economized and traded on their fame by making lengthy sojourns in the homes of the wealthy patrons they cultivated.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 25, 2022

There may be no more tiny, fragile body than Charlie Brown’s—the abbreviated torso, economized limbs, and naked, vulnerable head.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 6, 2019

Her earnest desire was to educate the beautiful and precocious child; and she economized from her scanty means until she was able to send him to the Seminary of Saint Cyprian in Venice.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

Dollar stores aren’t the only retail option when it comes to economizing on Easter spending.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 2, 2026

Peter Wood, president of the conservative National Association of Scholars, said economizing academic programs to focus more on employment creates a different experience for three-year students.

From Washington Times ● Apr. 20, 2023

When you are already economizing hard, any cut feels like it is hitting bone.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2022

Pappus of Alexandria declared that bees “possessed a divine sense of symmetry,” and Charles Darwin described the honeycomb as a masterpiece of engineering that is “absolutely perfect in economizing labor and wax.”

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2015

I walked over to Madison Avenue and started to wait around for a bus because I didn't have hardly any money left and I had to start economizing on cabs and all.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger