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economic definition

eco·nomic (ek′ə näm′ik, ē′kə-)

adjective

  1. of or having to do with the management of the income, expenditures, etc. of a household, business, community, or government
  2. of or having to do with the production, distribution, and consumption of wealth
  3. of or having to do with economics
  4. of or having to do with the satisfaction of people's material needs economic biology
  5. economical (sense )

Etymology: L oeconomicus < Gr oikonomia: see economy

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economic Synonyms

economic

modif.

industrial, business, financial, budgetary; see commercial 1.


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economic Usage Examples

Infinitive complement

  • operate: There comes a time when it is no longer economic to operate the plant.

Modifies a noun

  • growth: Economic growth needs a continuing growth in demand for oil.

Modifying Another Word

  • essentially: With the emergence of the EEC that dream was realized in an essentially economic organization.

Used with adjective complement

  • improve: To assist UK construction to improve economic, social and environmental performance through the increased use of enabling technology on construction sites.
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economic quotes

The economic services that it can render are picayune compared to the moral effect that it produces, and its true function is to create in two or more persons a feeling of solidarity.

-Durkheim, EŁ  mile

The chief source of economic insecurity in America used to be growing old; now it's being born into or raised in a single-parent family.

-Ellwood, David T

Aux colonies, l'infrastructure e¤  conomique est e¤  galement une superstructure. La cause est conse¤  quence: on est riche parce que blanc, on est blanc parce que riche. In the colonies the economic substructure is also a superstructure. The cause is the consequence; you are rich because you are white, you are white because you are rich.

-Fanon, Frantz Omar

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