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Jordan Trevino, 28, who recently took a better paying job in advertising in Los Angeles with a $100,000 salary, is economizing in little ways — ordering a cheaper entree when out to dinner, for example.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2022

The company is economizing – sending its prime western zinc plant operations to North Carolina, and downsizing to only one zinc oxide plant in Canada, close to Michelin's operations.

From The Guardian • Jul. 24, 2013

In the meantime, the International Criminal Court is economizing and exploring alternatives large and small: eliminating subsidies for family phone calls or excess baggage, for example, or placing visitors on empty returning military planes.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2010

Nature is economizing her material and husbanding her resources against the trying years which are to come.

From Parent and Child Volume III., Child Study and Training by Hall, Mosiah

"But just now Monsieur le Comte is economizing, so as to make Soulanges the entailed estate of his peerage."

From Sons of the Soil by Balzac, Honoré de