Contents
-AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (II) Intersocial Volition
Section IV. Possessive Relations
4. Monetary Relations
817. Economy.
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| NOUN: | ECONOMY, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment.
SAVINGS; prevention of waste, saveall; parsimony [See Parsimony].
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| VERB: | BE ECONOMICAL &c. adj.; practice economy, economize, save; retrench, cut down expenses; cut one’s coat according to one’s cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one’s expenses, keep one’s head above water, pay one’s way; husband &c. (lay by) [See Store]; save -, invest- money; put out to interest; provide -, save- -for, – against- a rainy day; feather one’s nest; look after the main chance [colloq.].
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| ADJECTIVE: | ECONOMICAL, frugal, careful, thrifty, saving, chary, spare, sparing; parsimonious [See Parsimony]; sufficient; plain.
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| ADVERB: | SPARINGLY &c. adj.; ne quid nimis [L.].
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
- Magnum est vectigal parsimonia.—Cicero
- Though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind.—Cowper
- Gars auld claes look amaist as weel’s the new.—Burns
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