Definition of "economized" [economized]

• Simple past tense and past participle of economize. (verb)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "And then it was bed-time — kerosene must be economized — and he wound his watch, entered the weather in his diary, and took off his shoes, the right shoe first, and placed them, just so, side by side, at the foot of the bed on his side."
• "What we lose when we go that ideological route is the possibility of coordinated, cooperative, non-economized collective action — government in the hoped-for and often unrealized sense of democracy — which is one of the only levers we have that might be used to counter global capitalism."
• "Universities economized on the most expensive aspect of providing an education books, by having one person read the book to many others."