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economizer
[ ih-kon-uh-mahy-zer ]
noun
- a person who economizes.
- (in a boiler) a device for warming feed water with gases entering the chimney or stack.
economizer
/ ɪˈkɒnəˌmaɪzə /
noun
- a device that uses the waste heat from a boiler flue to preheat the feed water
- a person or thing that economizes
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Word History and Origins
Origin of economizer1
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Example Sentences
If fuel is cheap and the engineer unskilled, a compound engine would be a poor economizer.
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It thus appears, like tobacco, to be in general an economizer of vital energy and an aid to effective nutrition.
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The economizer and the stoker gear and worm were driven by a Brotherhood three cylinder hydraulic engine.
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Nature, said Lester Ward, is a spendthrift, man an economizer.
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He was the plodder, the bookkeeper, the economizer, the man who had an eye for microscopic details.
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