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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
economise is a verb meaning "spend sparingly, avoid the waste of". It carries 2 recorded senses.
spend sparingly, avoid the waste of
“This move will save money”
“The less fortunate will have to economize now”
use cautiously and frugally
“I try to economize my spare time”
“conserve your energy for the ascent to the summit”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for economise come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.