ECONOMIZATION Synonyms

• an occurrence of improvement by virtue of preventing loss or injury or other change

• the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources

• (physics) the maintenance of a certain quantities unchanged during chemical reactions or physical transformations

• a reduction in quantity or rate

• prudence in avoiding waste

• extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

• extreme stinginess

• extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

• giving or spending with reluctance

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent

• the act of reducing complexity

• the act of controlling by restraining someone or something

• discipline in personal and social activities

• the state of being physically constrained

• a rule or condition that limits freedom

• lack of ornamentation

• a device that retards something's motion

• an act of economizing; reduction in cost

• recovery or preservation from loss or danger

• the activity of protecting something from loss or danger

• bringing about salvation or redemption from sin

• characterized by thriftiness

• any of numerous sun-loving low-growing evergreens of the genus Armeria having round heads of pink or white flowers

• extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily

• subsist on a meager allowance