economizer
- n a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste
- THE CONGRESS The Elephant Hunt Drawing a bead on Virginia's apple-cheeked Harry Byrd, the Senate's economizer extraordinary, is almost as adventurous an undertaking as stalking a.
- When the new governor delivered his first message to the legislature, the Old Guard and the old-timers who remembered his prewar days as an economizer were shocked right off .
- John Taber, 85, longtime (1923-62) Republican Congressman, from New York's Finger Lakes district, an unyielding economizer who, as ranking member of the House Appropriations .