economizer
Americannoun
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a person who economizes.
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(in a boiler) a device for warming feed water with gases entering the chimney or stack.
noun
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a device that uses the waste heat from a boiler flue to preheat the feed water
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a person or thing that economizes
Etymology
Origin of economizer
Example Sentences
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The other is that unemployment is a major fuel economizer.
From Slate • Mar. 7, 2012
Also an able economizer, Weiss saves most of his $1,500 pay to help finance his research trips.
From Time Magazine Archive
Except for Delaware's John Williams and Virginia's inveterate economizer, Harry Byrd, he had almost no support.
From Time Magazine Archive
Equally as important as the cash savings was a series of recommendations which Director Douglas asked to have attached to the bill as riders to give the President even greater powers as an economizer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Perhaps they are right: the Baptiste idiom is a great economizer of time and trouble.
From The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander
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