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Etymology
Household management, from L. oeconomia, from w:Greek language|Greek oikonomia household management from oikonomos manager, steward, from oikos house (cognate with Latin vicus district, vicinus near; w:Old English|Old English wic dwelling, village; see villa) + nomos managing from nemein manage (see numismatics). The sense of manage the resources of a country (short for political economy) is from 1651. Hence, economic (1835) means related to the science of economics, while economical (1780) retains the sense characterized by thrift.

Pronunciation
RP IPA|/i��k�n�mi/
US AHD|/�'kô'nô'm�/
audio|en-us-economy.ogg|Audio (US)

Adjective
economy

1. cheap; using minimal resources.

#: "He bought an economy car."

Translations
Russian: �кономн�й (ekonómnyj)

Noun
wikipedia
en-noun|econom|ies

1. Effective management of the resources of a community or system.
2. The collective focus of the study of money, currency and trade.
3. Frugal use of resources.
4. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
5. theology The method of divine government of the world.

Related terms

economic
economical
economics
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economist
economize
macroeconomics

Translations

Arabic: ARchar|إ�تصاد IPAchar|(iqti��d)
Chinese: ��/�� (jīng jì)
Czech: hospodá�ství n
Estonian: majandus
Danish: økonomi c
Dutch: economie f
Faroese: búskapur m
French: économie f
German: Wirtschaft f, �konomie f
Greek: οικονομία (ikonomía) f
Ido: ekonomi
Italian: economia f
Japanese: �� (����, keizai)
Korean: 경� (gyeongje)
Kurdish: aborî f, ekonomî f, îqtisad f, KUchar|ئاب��ر�
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Latin: oeconomia, �conomia f
Luxembourgian: �konomie f
Malaysian: ekonomi
Norwegian: økonomi ? f
Portuguese: cheap: econômico m; science: economia f
Russian: �кономика (ekonómika) f
Serbian:
* Cyrillic: економи�а f
* Roman: ekonomija f
Spanish: economía f
Swedish: ekonomi
Turkish: ekonomi

Alternative spellings
�conomy

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