Definitions for economyɪˈkɒn ə mi

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

e•con•o•myɪˈkɒn ə mi(n.; adj.)(pl.)-mies

  1. (n.)thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.

    Category: Business

  2. an act or means of thrifty saving:

    Walking to work is one of my economies.

    Category: Business

  3. the management of the resources of a community, country, etc., esp. with a view to its productivity.

    Category: Business

  4. the prosperity or earnings of a place.

    Category: Business

  5. the disposition or regulation of the parts or functions of any organic whole; an organized system.

  6. the efficient or sparing use of something:

    economy of motion.

  7. Category: Business

    Ref: economy class.

  8. (adj.)intended or designed to save money:

    an economy car.

    Category: Common Vocabulary

Origin of economy:

1520–30; (< MF economie) < L oeconomia < Gk oikonomíā household management =oîko(s) house +-nomia -nomy

Princeton's WordNet

  1. economy, economic system(noun)

    the system of production and distribution and consumption

  2. economy(noun)

    the efficient use of resources

    "economy of effort"

  3. economy, thriftiness(noun)

    frugality in the expenditure of money or resources

    "the Scots are famous for their economy"

  4. economy, saving(noun)

    an act of economizing; reduction in cost

    "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents"

Kernerman English Learner's Dictionary

  1. economy(noun)ɪˈkɒn ə mi

    the system of finance and commerce in a country

    the U.S. economy; The world's economy is slowing down.

  2. economyɪˈkɒn ə mi

    ≠ extravagance

    Small economies can make a real difference.

  3. economy(adjective)ɪˈkɒn ə mi

    inexpensive

    economy vacations

  4. economyɪˈkɒn ə mi

    (of product packages) holding large quantities, sold cheaply

    Try our new economy size.

Wiktionary

  1. economy(Noun)

    Effective management of the resources of a community or system.

  2. economy(Noun)

    Collective focus of the study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.

  3. economy(Noun)

    Frugal use of resources.

  4. economy(Noun)

    The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.

  5. economy(Noun)

    The method of divine government of the world.

  6. economy(Noun)

    Management of oneu2019s residency.

  7. economy(Adjective)

    Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money.

  8. Origin: From oeconomia, from οἰκονομία, from οἶκος + νόμος (surface analysis ). The first recorded sense of the word economy, found in a work possibly composed in 1440, is “the management of economic affairs”, in this case, of a monastery.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Economy(noun)

    the management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy

  2. Economy(noun)

    orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy

  3. Economy(noun)

    the system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy

  4. Economy(noun)

    thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Economy

    "the right arrangement of things," and distinct from Frugality, which is "the careful and fitting use of things."

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. ECONOMY

    Denying ourselves a necessary to-day in order to buy a luxury to-morrow.


Translations for economy

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

economy(noun)

the thrifty, careful management of money etc to avoid waste

Please use the water with economy; We must make economies in household spending.

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