nomic

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Capitalist individualism is mainly eco­ but an umbrella concept to enable me to write about a large nomic, and varies not only between entrepreneurs and corporate slice of that population, literally the cultural, economic, and demo­ executives but also by the extent to which the goal is profit maxi­ graphic slice in the middle.

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  1. Customary or conventional: applied to the present mode of English spelling: opposed to Glossic or phonetic. A. J. Ellis. [capitalized]
  2. The customary or conventional English spelling. See Glossic. A. J. Ellis.
  3. Of or pertaining to a nome. See nome. Prof. Mezger has pointed out many cases in which Pindar thus employs a recurrent word to guide the hearer to the proper apprehension of the nomic march in his poems. Quarterly Rev., CLXII. 167.

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  • Documents washed across his working space with the metro-nomic regularity of waves, but he typed them without his usual frustration, taking refuge in the numbingly mindless activity of his fingers. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 05 - May 1994
  • He tried to keep his face impassive during the Lull, tried to stop the fingers on his left hand from tapping the side of his chair, tried to suppress the sweating, the throat clearing, the swallowing, the dozens of silent, auto-nomic betrayals of anxiety. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 01 - July 1994
  • Anita Roddick, the company's founder, introduced a refill system in the first Body Shop in Brighton, England, and although the concept is imitated by other cosmetic companies today, Roddick's Shop continues setting new "eco-nomic" precedents Now, fittingly, the Body Shop is the first international skin- and hair-care company to tackle one of the industry's chief environmental challenges: successfully treating raw factory waste on site with an experimental, ecologically sustainable system. —  Omni: November 1993
  • While the Fritzl-nomic duo still prefers a freer hand in doling out rules and sanctions as most credit rating agencies, hedge funds, and tax havens have activities drawing on UK and US business, the pushback against their excesses is real. —  International Political Economy Zone
  • The indicative eco - employment, increasing environmental quality and provid - nomic analysis provided above shows the economic potential ing primary energy carriers to energy de fi cient areas, the of the Jatropha system. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
 

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  1. from Greek νομικός, pertaining to the law, conventional, from νόμος, a law, usage, custom: see nome.
  2. from nome +-ic. Cf. nomic.
 

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