economizer
a person who economizes.
(in a boiler) a device for warming feed water with gases entering the chimney or stack.
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How to use economizer in a sentence
If fuel is cheap and the engineer unskilled, a compound engine would be a poor economizer.
Farm Engines and How to Run Them | James H. StephensonIt thus appears, like tobacco, to be in general an economizer of vital energy and an aid to effective nutrition.
Tobacco and Alcohol | John FiskeThe economizer and the stoker gear and worm were driven by a Brotherhood three cylinder hydraulic engine.
Nature, said Lester Ward, is a spendthrift, man an economizer.
Philosophy and The Social Problem | Will DurantHe was the plodder, the bookkeeper, the economizer, the man who had an eye for microscopic details.
The Age of Big Business | Burton J. Hendrick
British Dictionary definitions for economizer
economiser
/ (ɪˈkɒnəˌmaɪzə) /
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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