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Economizer

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e·con·o·mize  (-kn-mz)
v. e·con·o·mized, e·con·o·miz·ing, e·con·o·miz·es
v.intr.
1. To practice economy, as by avoiding waste or reducing expenditures.
2. To make economical use of something: "The best that can be said for this method is that it economizes on thought" Christopher Hitchens.
v.tr.
To use or manage with thrift: the need to economize scarce energy resources.

e·cono·mizer n.
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Noun1.economizer - a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste
saver - someone who saves (especially money)
stinter - an economizer who stints someone with something

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One such solution being employed by building owners and facility managers across the country is the use of energy economizers such as IntelliCon, a line of energy-saving economizers manufactured by Intellidyne LLC of Glen Cove, New York.
Emissions were found to depend on the bark-to-sulfur rations in the fuel and on the stack oxygen, a surrogate for the oxygen level in the superheater and economizer sections.
644 (1987) (costs of upgrading tubing in "economizers" attached to six power plant boilers were capital expenditures where the economizers rather than the boilers were the relevant unit of property); Denver & Rio Grande Western R.
 
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