œconomizing

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œconomizing

  1. present participle and gerund of œconomize
    • 1799 C.E., The Senator : or, Clarendon’s Parliamentary Chronicle., W. Stratford; volume XXIV, page #633:
      There was another mode of œconomizing, which, in his opinion, need only be ſtated to the Houſe to induce them to adopt it.
    • 1838, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIV, in Duty and Inclination: [], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, [], →OCLC, page 213:
      ..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,..