economizern.
/ᵻˈkɒnəmʌɪzə/, U.S. /iˈkɑnəˌmaɪzər/, /əˈkɑnəˌmaɪzər/ A person who or thing which economizes.
1. A person who is economic or sparing in the use of resources (esp. money); one who effects saving in expenditure.
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the mind > possession > retaining > sparingness or frugality > [noun] > sparing or frugal person
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economist1669
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economizer1834
frugalist1864
belt-tightener1944
1834 Let. 11 Mar. in A. H. Hallam Remains in Verse & Prose Pref. p. xxi He adhered to hours and plans of reading, with a perseverance which left no doubt of his power to become a strict economiser of time.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop ii. lxii. 149 Sarah's as good an economizer as any going.
1886 Pall Mall Budget 7 Jan. 4/2 He was a most rigid economizer who spent a halfpenny in tar, but when the ship foundered his economy was not much appreciated even by himself.
1920 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 28 631 Its tendency toward making him a poor economizer of outlays which are not procured in exchange for cash.
1965 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 6 Jan. 20/1 Gov. Edmund Brown apparently is trying to be an economizer and a big spender at one and the same time.
2006 Chattanooga (Tennessee) Times Free Press (Nexis) 9 Nov. b7 They were supposed to be governmental economizers and advocates of limited government. Too many had embraced excessive spending.
2. Engineering. A device that improves the efficiency of a process, appliance, etc., or economizes (the use of) a consumable, esp. fuel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > other tools and equipment
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botea1450
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dressing hook1683
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hand plate1911
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fogger1946
1841 J. S. Russell On Nature, Properties, & Applic. of Steam 32 It is thus rendered an economizer, distributer, and reservoir of heat derived from the combustion of fuel.
1854 J. M. Rankine in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 144 137 We shall in the first place investigate the efficiency of those which work without the aid of a contrivance called an ‘economizer’ or ‘regenerator’.
1884 Internat. Health Exhib. Official Catal. 64/2 Fire Economiser for ordinary grates.
1912 P. A. Amos Processes of Flour Manuf. xxvii. 225 To the full power cost the following must also be added: (6) Boiler repairs; (7) economizer and pump repairs and cleaning.
1943 Triumphs of Engin. 77/2 The hot gases..pass amongst yet another set of coils through which the cold water is pumped on the way to the boiler. This is the economizer.
1973 Technol. & Culture 14 432 The inventors believed that the employment of a heat exhanger (the Stirling brothers' economizer or Ericsson's regenerator) would promote greater fuel economy.
2003 Power Mar. 4/2 Single-phase FAC [= flow-accelerated corrosion] in economizers is being recognized as one cause of failures.
3. A person who practises ‘economy’ or judicious selection with regard to the presentation (Theology) of doctrine or (more generally) the truth. Cf. to be economical with (also of) (the) truth at economical adj. Phrases.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > one who or that which dissembles
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1874 J. Morley On Compromise 67 The modern economiser keeps back his opinions, or dissembles the grounds of them.
1939 Mod. Lang. Rev. 34 424 Newman, then, was commonly held to be an economizer of truth and equivocator even before Bishop Blougram's Apology was written.
1994 Guardian (Nexis) 21 Dec. (Features) t9 What are we to conclude? That she is dimmer than she looks? Or that she is a compulsive economiser with the truth?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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