EGAVE

economy

Academic Word List, sublist 1.

About 73.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources. The regular operation of nature in the generation, nutrition and preservation of animals or plants.
    animal economy, vegetable economy
  2. noun The regular operation of nature in the generation, nutrition and preservation of animals or plants.
    animal economy, vegetable economy
  3. noun System of management; general regulation and disposition of the affairs of a state or nation, or of any department of government.
  4. noun A system of rules, regulations, rites and ceremonies.
    the Jewish economy
  5. noun The disposition or arrangement of any work.
    the economy of a poem
  6. noun The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
  7. noun Frugal use of resources.
    economy of word
  8. noun The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.

Similar words

saving thriftiness economic system economics management affordability exchequer business economic financial

Often followed by

of and in is was as to has that

Word family

economic economical economically economics economies economist economists

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