Economic

/ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪk/ · adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to an economy..

Definitions by Sense

1. Pertaining to an economy.
2. Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value); economical.
3. Pertaining to the study of money and its movement.
4. (obsolete) Pertaining to the management of a household
5. (uncountable) The art or science of household management, especially relating to the appropriate organization of resources; housekeeping.
6. One who is skilled in household management.
7. One who manages the income of a vacant benefice.

Example Sentences

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

There is much talk of tyranny in the political realm, but little is said about the tyrannies in the economic realm, a primary one being the tyranny of high costs: high costs crush the economy from within and enslave those attempting to start enterprises or keep their businesses afloat.

And doth employ her Oeconomick Art, and buisy Care, her Houshold to preserve

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Word Forms

• more economic
• most economic
• economick
• œconomic
• œconomick
• economics

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