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Meanings of economising in English
Personality trait; avoidance of unnecessary expenditure.
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Examples for "thrift"
Examples for "thrift"
1
Research sale days: Some people don't know that thrift shops have sales.
2
The thrift's other units include retail banking, commercial banking and credit cards.
3
Behind the thrift store were other buildings-officesand a modern dormitory-stylebuilding.
4
Acquired from thrift stores after I was done with the flea market.
5
Most thrift stores offer extremely low prices compared to their retail counterparts.
1
This new frugality is cutting into the nation's huge appetite for oil.
2
The frugality and modesty of his court have already been referred to.
3
Only frugality enables them to outdo the rich on their own ground.
4
Our parents have always been thrifty, so frugality was ingrained in us.
5
Since the world began, industry and frugality have been rewarded by wealth.
1
Of course, long-term cheapness doesn't automatically make a company a takeover target.
2
Elegance and cheapness are combined in a remarkable degree in this edition.
3
The lure of the cheapness of the merchandise overcomes all other considerations.
4
The effect of this cheapness is great in every department of industry.
5
The cheapness of wind-carriage may be set against the overproduction of pollen.
1
Goodness-of-fit, parsimony and robustness under misspecification were used to identify candidate models.
2
About the staging of the play there was a right Shakespearian parsimony.
3
Gifts are the last thing you expect after rehearsing for sheer parsimony.
4
But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.
5
The shabby plainness of Wren's church well typified all the parochial parsimony.
1
Against the Atlanta Hawks, they unveiled a whole new level of stinginess.
2
And all the thanks I get is to be taunted with stinginess.
3
He has treated me with a stinginess that I never knew equalled.
4
I'm glad, for of all faults I detest stinginess in a child.
5
It's a pity that stinginess is one of the roads to affluence.
1
Methods or systems of cropping the soil, with reference to economizing fertility.
2
There is no thought of trafficking or economizing in labor and in love.
3
The work of the Army in economizing food has been a great work.
4
The Board of Trade has urged on me the necessity for economizing gas.
5
It is the result of economizing money, and employing it for beneficial purposes.
1
But let it be remembered that thrift is not parsimony not miserliness.
2
I ought to have seen through your father's affectation of miserliness and indifference.
3
One poor quality the PM does share with the former Labour leader is miserliness.
4
What she had called miserliness was really prudence and thrift and other pleasant-sounding virtues.
5
He wishes to emphasize the cold miserliness of this man.
1
The village, though irregular, had a general air of thriftiness and respectability.
2
You ought to have taught them the value of cleanliness, thriftiness, and comfort.
3
For briskness, thriftiness, energy, and alacrity, it is hard to find his match.
4
The travel industry has also noticed a new thriftiness.
5
Aussies have bought what we need and a damaging thriftiness is settling on the economy.
1
Ruskin and William Morris saw, and doubtless exaggerated, the danger to which spiritual values were exposed at the hands of the dominant economism.
Usage of economising in English
1
He has no sense of duty in planning or economising.
2
The concentrated fuels were not known in those days, and heat-economising appliances were not invented.
3
By economising the food we were able to save enough for breakfast the next morning.
4
Andy is cautious and, when things got tight, he suggested economising on their attic bedroom.
5
A patriotic nation was economising in order to get five per cent on the War Loans.
6
But as to economising and arranging details that would surely be the greatest folly of all.'
7
Paying for the roof over your head is eye-wateringly expensive, and economising is getting you nowhere fast.
8
She made appointments with him to discuss the best means of economising his time and protecting his privacy.
9
The common meals were quite festal, as there was no need for economising the stores under present circumstances.
10
Philip had, for the purpose of economising heat and saving roofing, resolved to make the house of two stories.
11
By economising each crop in this way, we shall soon have seeds enough to cover any extent of land.
12
Some families were economising as much as they could and were living in cold homes as a result, she said.
13
These people get through the days with such ennui and difficulty, that they have no idea of people economising time.
14
Thus economising their resources, the winter finally wore away, but when the spring came, their scanty means were entirely exhausted.
15
We have been economising for the last five years, and I supposed we came abroad to reap the benefits of it.
16
It is because we cannot go on for much longer economising on labour faster than we can find new uses for it.
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Translations for economising
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Economising through the time