Definition of "economizing" [economizing]

• Present participle of economize. (verb)

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• "But we'll learn from the experience, and the cost of unmanned trips will go down, and the safety and success rate go up, as we get beyond the learning phase -- especially if we take the goal seriously enough to incorporate such ingenious long-term economizing ideas as those of Robert Zubrin."
• "I flatter myself that I am becoming quite efficient in economizing "– Susan had taken to using certain German terms with killing effect –" but one can exercise a little gumption on the quiet now and then."
• "It has not been this kind of economizing that has inspired the suggestions of the theses, but a genuine concern for savings, for production, for productivity, for the discipline of work."