Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to the production, development, and management of material wealth, as of a country, household, or business enterprise.
- adj. Of or relating to an economy: a period of sustained economic growth.
- adj. Of or relating to the science of economics: new economic theories regarding the effects of deficit spending.
- adj. Of or relating to the practical necessities of life; material: wrote the book primarily for economic reasons.
- adj. Financially rewarding; economical: It was no longer economic to keep the manufacturing facilities open.
- adj. Efficient; economical: an economic use of home heating oil.
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.
- n. etc. Obsolete forms of economic, etc.
- Relating to value as viewed from the standpoint of material welfare in contrast with values of other orders. Thus higher education may represent an economic loss to the community, although the social and moral advantages derived from it far outweigh that loss.
Wiktionary
- adj. pertaining to an economy
- adj. frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value); economical.
- adj. pertaining to the study of money and its movement
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to the household; domestic.
- adj. Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs.
- adj. Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.
- adj. 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.
- adj. 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
- adj. Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.
- adj. of or pertaining to economics.
- adj. profitable. Opposite of
uneconomic . - adj. avoiding waste. Opposite of
wasteful .
WordNet 3.0
- adj. concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money)
- adj. of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth
- adj. using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness
- adj. of or relating to the science of economics
- adj. financially rewarding
Etymologies
- economy + -ic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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”
“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”
“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”
“Thrice in this short piece Brooks throws around the term "economic determinism" without bothering to define it.”
The Huffington Post: Joseph A. Palermo: David Brooks's Anti-Poverty Program: "Bourgeois Paternalism"
“I think it's not being immodest to say that when we started the Institute for Justice in 1991, the term economic liberty was confined pretty much to libertarian academics," Mr. Mellor grins.”
“More-over the term "economic uncertaint y" is a codeword from the CEO community that essentiall y translates into - unless Washington does everything we want - we won't invest in America which is why they're sitting on 2 trillion in cash and sinking most of it outside our borders.”
“You will notice that the Democrats, in all of these articles and columns, never use the phrase "economic growth," which is astonishing to me, because they have no proposal to promote growth.”
“For reasons we shall later develop more completely the term economic slowly came to mean “efficiency” as measure in monetary terms in the market.”
“PFOTENHAUER: I was going to say, I'm glad he put the term economic in front of the term fascism.”
“PFOTENHAUER: Well, I'm glad he put the term economic in front.”
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BUDG - general terms
Budgetese - not a sexy topic but a very comprehensive list of words and collocations used in EU circles. Budgeting experts please comment and expand.
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EU Buzz - ALL words and expressions
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CONT - general terms
additionality, audit trail, accounting standards, auditing standards, general audit obj..., a posteriori audit, a priori audit, above board, acceptable error ..., access rights, accountability, accountable entities and 1283 more...
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The most frequent words in the titles of mathematical books and journals (www.sciencedirect.com)
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EN - academic vocabulary
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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EU Buzz - 100 most active collocation...
The 100 most frequent constituents of EU collocations. People working for the EU are able to complete any of these words to a multiple-word expression with ease. Try it out if you are one! For a gr...
accession, acquis, act, action, agenda, agreement, aid, area, assistance, association, base, budget and 88 more...
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TECH - Steve Jobs
admonition, integrate, dominate, emerging, sensation, intense, mentor, intuition, elegant, chassis, culture, chronicle and 76 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
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ESL Academic Word List
This is a list of academic words for students learning English as a Second or Foreign Language. It includes 570 word families that often appear in academic texts. It does not include words that are...
collapse, depression, colleagues, invoked, levy, nonetheless, likewise, so-called, ongoing, conceived, forthcoming, integrity and 558 more...
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Learned words
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Immigration
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