economize
verb (used without object)
to practice economy; avoid waste or extravagance.
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Even while spending at the rate of fifty thousand francs per annum, you will be economizing; yet, it will enable you to await the supreme hour patiently—I mean the hour when the old man—you understand!
From A Cardinal Sin by Eugène Sue