"economize" meaning in All languages combined

See economize on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

IPA: /iˈkɑnəmaɪz/ [General-American], /iˈkɒnəmaɪz/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-economize.wav [Southern-England] Forms: economizes [present, singular, third-person], economizing [participle, present], economized [participle, past], economized [past], economise [alternative], œconomise [alternative], œconomize [alternative]
Etymology: Etymology tree English economy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English economize From economy + -ize. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|economy|-ize|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree English economy Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English economize [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "bor.", "keyword_label" : "Borrowed from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "verbal", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-id-", "status" : "missing", "lang" : "ine-pro" }, { "children" : [ ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-yéti", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-idyéti", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Hellenic", "term" : "*-íďďō", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "grk-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Ancient Greek", "term" : "-ῐ́ζω", "lang" : "grc" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Late Latin", "term" : "-izō", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "la-lat" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle French", "term" : "-iser", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "frm" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-isen", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-ize", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "economize", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="economize"> From economy + -ize. Head templates: {{en-verb}} economize (third-person singular simple present economizes, present participle economizing, simple past and past participle economized)
  1. (intransitive) To practice being economical (by using things sparingly or in moderation, and by avoiding waste or extravagance). Tags: intransitive
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  2. (transitive) To use frugally. Tags: transitive Translations (to use sparingly): اِقْتَصَدَ (iqtaṣada) (Arabic), اِدَّخَرَ (iddaḵara) (Arabic), economitzar (Catalan), estalviar (Catalan), 慳皮 /悭皮 (alt: haan¹ pei⁴⁻²) (Chinese Cantonese), 節約 /节约 (jiéyuē) (Chinese Mandarin), 節省 /节省 (jiéshěng) (Chinese Mandarin), 撙節 /撙节 (zǔnjié) (Chinese Mandarin), bezuinigen (Dutch), economiseren (Dutch), ŝpari (Esperanto), économiser (French), épargner (French), einsparen (German), ökonomisieren (German), οικονομώ (oikonomó) (Greek), sparar (Ido), 節約する (setsuyaku suru) (alt: せつやくする) (Japanese), үнемдеу (ünemdew) (Kazakh), 절약하다 (jeoryakhada) (Korean), whakamoamoa (Māori), whāomoomo (Māori), whakaomoomo (Māori), oszczędzać [imperfective] (Polish), oszczędzić [perfective] (Polish), zaoszczędzić [perfective] (Polish), эконо́мить (ekonómitʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), сэконо́мить (sɛkonómitʹ) [perfective] (Russian), эконо́мничать (ekonómničatʹ) [colloquial, imperfective] (Russian), сберега́ть (sberegátʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), сбере́чь (sberéčʹ) [perfective] (Russian), economizar (Spanish), ahorrar (Spanish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: eke out Derived forms: economization, economizer, uneconomizing Related terms: economic, economically, economics, economist, economy

Verb [Portuguese]

Head templates: {{head|pt|verb form}} economize
  1. inflection of economizar:
    first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    Tags: first-person, form-of, present, singular, subjunctive, third-person Form of: economizar
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  2. inflection of economizar:
    third-person singular imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, singular, third-person Form of: economizar
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Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (d6fca27 and 65e1673). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.