Economic

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of or relating to the production, development, and management of material wealth, as of a country, household, or business enterprise.
  • adjective. Of or relating to an economy.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the science of economics.
  • adjective. Of or relating to the practical necessities of life; material.
  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Financially rewarding; economical.
  • adjective. Efficient; economical.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Relating or pertaining to the household; domestic.
  • Pertaining to the regulation of household concerns.
  • Pertaining to pecuniary means or concerns; relating to or connected with income and expenditure: as, his economic management was bad; he was restrained by economic considerations; the economic branches of government.
  • Of or pertaining to economics, or the production, distribution, and use of wealth; relating to the means of living, or to the arts by which human needs and comforts are supplied: as, an economic problem; economic disturbances; economic geology or botany.
  • Characterized by freedom from wastefulness, extravagance, or excess; frugal; saving; sparing: as, economic use of money or of material.
  • = Syn.5. Saving, sparing, careful, thrifty, provident.
  • noun. etc. Obsolete forms of economic, etc.
  • Relating to value as viewed from the standpoint of material welfare in contrast with values of other orders.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Pertaining to the household; domestic.
  • adjective. Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs.
  • adjective. Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.
  • adjective. Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; using the minimum of time or effort or resources required for effectiveness; frugal; -- said of acts; saving.
  • adjective. of or pertaining to the national or regional economy; relating to political economy; relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to the production or consumption of goods and services of a nation or region
  • adjective. Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.
  • adjective. of or pertaining to economics.
  • adjective. profitable. Opposite of uneconomic.
  • adjective. avoiding waste. Opposite of wasteful.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. pertaining to an economy
  • adjective. frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value); economical.
  • adjective. pertaining to the study of money and its movement
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  • adjective. concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money)
  • adjective. of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth
  • adjective. using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness
  • adjective. of or relating to the science of economics
  • adjective. financially rewarding
  • Word Usage
    "We have had 13 years of a so-called Labour government which accepted the whole Thatcherite economic settlement, has seen an increase in social and ­economic inequality; worshipped wealth and fawned on high finance at home and abroad; passed a vast array of repressive laws; betrayed all its ­promises on the single currency? and in the end did more damage to the"
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