economize

Or perhaps, if you can sense that coming, you could economize your care a few years in, so that you can stretch the funds further.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 8, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026

“Our strategy is to economize on the less important stuff but never save money on the stuff that really matters,” said Terekh, who used to run a company manufacturing furniture for Ukraine’s middle class.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

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

Our principle was to economize, to save for tomorrow.

From "Night" by Elie Wiesel

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

The man in a rude state has very rude instruments; he therefore wastes his force: the man in a civilized state has very perfect ones; he therefore economizes it.

From Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. by Charles Knight

Huet and Geyler, introduced, we are told, into the mechanical treatment of metals, a principle which greatly economizes fluid.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

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

Now, this potter's wheel is one of the most ancient instruments of human industry, one of the earliest inventions by which man utilized and economized his labour.

From Triumphs of Invention and Discovery in Art and Science by J. Hamilton Fyfe

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

Yes, even in the midst of the Great Recession, customers were economizing on Starbucks, but not on more expensive brews.

From Slate ● Nov. 5, 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