Economy

Noun

 * 1) Effective management of the resources of a community or system.
 * 2) Collective focus of the study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
 * 3) Frugal use of resources.
 * 4) The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
 * 5)  The method of divine government of the world.
 * 6)  Management of one’s.

Derived terms

 * command economy
 * economic
 * economical
 * economist


 * economize
 * market economy
 * planned economy

Related terms

 * economics
 * macroeconomics


 * microeconomics

Adjective

 * 1) Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money.
 * "He bought an economy car."
 * "Economy size".

Adjectives for Economy
vulnerable; rugged; centralized; reasonable; regimental; actual; domestic; scrupulous; excessive; benign; solitary; desperate; smooth-running; careful; ultimate; numerous (pi); political; drastic; niggardly; expensive; operating; utmost; satisfying; random; ready; careful; capitalistic; animal; internal; democratic; rigid; spiritual; unequalled; household; strictest; outstanding; supernatural; gasoline; false; agricultural; physical.

Verbs for Economy
betray—; decree—; denounce—; disparage—; effect—; encourage—; favor—; hail—; ignore—; instil—; maintain—; necessitate—; observe—; plan—; practise—; promote—; require—; sacrifice—; systemize—; tighten—; undertake—s; —assures; —preserves; —saves.

Thesaurus
GNP, barter economy, brevity, briefness, budget, capitalistic economy, carefulness, cheap, cheeseparing, collectivized economy, compactness, conciseness, concision, conservation, conservatism, consumer economy, control, curtness, discretion, diversified economy, easy, economic, economic system, economy of assumption, economy of means, elegance, farm economy, forehandedness, free-enterprise economy, frugal, frugality, gross national product, handicraft economy, hot economy, husbandry, industrial economy, inexpensive, laissez-faire, law of parsimony, local economy, low, low-priced, manageable, meanness, mercantile economy, miserliness, moderate, modest, national economy, niggardliness, nominal, overheated economy, parsimoniousness, parsimony, paucity, pinching, planned economy, private-enterprise economy, providence, prudence, reasonable, restraint, rural economy, saving, scrimping, sensible, shabby, shoddy, skimping, socialistic economy, sound economy, stinginess, stinting, succinctness, terseness, thrift, thriftiness, token, town economy, unexpensive, urban economy, village economy, war economy, within means, world economy, worth the money

Alternative forms

 * œconomy

Etymology
From oeconomia: from  οἰκονομία: from οἶκος: + νόμος:. 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.

Noun

 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ekonomio
 * Italian:
 * Polish:
 * Polish:


 * Scottish Gaelic: eaconomaidh
 * Spanish: economía
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ekonomi, hushållning


 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 經濟, 经济
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German: ,


 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: 経済
 * Korean: 경제 (經濟)
 * Russian: экономия, бережливость, экономичность
 * Serbian:
 * Swedish: ekonomi, hushållning


 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 經濟, 经济
 * Czech: ekonomika, hospodářství
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: किफायत
 * Irish: geilleagar
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 経済
 * Korean: 경제 (經濟)
 * Ossetian:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Russian: экономика, хозяйство
 * Scottish Gaelic: eaconomaidh
 * Serbian: ,
 * Swedish: ekonomi, hushållning
 * Tatar: икътисад
 * Thai: เศรษฐกิจ
 * Vietnamese: tiết kiệm


 * : majandus
 * : búskapur
 * : Binnenwirtschaft
 * : ekonomi
 * : aborî, ekonomî , îqtisad ,
 * : aborî, ekonomî , îqtisad ,


 * : oeconomia, œconomia
 * : Ökonomie
 * : ekonomi
 * : økonomi ?
 * : cheap: econômico ; science: economia
 * : economía
 * : ekonomi

Adjective

 * Russian: экономный


 * Swedish: ekonomisk

Anagrams

 * monoecy