Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of œconomize
There was another mode of œconomizing, which, in his opinion, need only be ſtated to the Houſe to induce them to adopt it.
1799 C.E., The Senator : or, Clarendon’s Parliamentary Chronicle., W. Stratford; volume XXIV, page #6331 more example
..in no longer submitting to the pain of absence, they would also derive, what in their situation was of such essential importance, the œconomizing from his army allowance, which in its accumulations could be devoted to the payment and satisfaction of his creditors,..
1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 213
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