Economic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
  • Equivalent
    temporal    secular    worldly    efficient    profitable    economical   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    economical    economics   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    domestic    frugal    saving    regulative    scotch    sparing    stinting    thrifty   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Islamic    atomic    autonomic    comic    diatomic    ergonomic    gastronomic    islamic    macroeconomic    microeconomic   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    financial    cultural    industrial