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Economic   /ˌɛkənˈɑmɪk/  /ˌikənˈɑmɪk/   Listen
Economic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth.  Synonym: economical.  "Aspects of social, political, and economical life"
2.
Of or relating to the science of economics.
3.
Using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness.  Synonym: economical.  "A modern economical heating system" , "An economical use of her time"
4.
Concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money).  "Gave up the large house for economic reasons" , "In economic terms they are very privileged"
5.
Financially rewarding.  "Have to keep prices high enough to make it economic to continue the service"



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"Economic" Quotes from Famous Books



... invention of the cotton-gin in 1792. This comparatively simple but inestimable invention completely revolutionized cloth manufacture in England and America. It also changed general commerce, industrial development, and the social and economic order of things, for it gave new occupations and offered new modes of life to hundreds of thousands of persons. It entirely changed and cheapened our dress, and altered rural life both in the ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle
... is plain enough. The economic distress that the world suffers now is the inevitable consequence of the war. Everybody knows that. But where the people differ is in regard to what is going to happen next, and what we must do about it. Here opinion takes a variety of forms. Some people blame it on the German mark: by permitting ...
— My Discovery of England • Stephen Leacock
... you to help me?" I replied. "I came down from Laurel with no ulterior motive; I came just to pay you a visit, and to thank you personally for giving me six months of freedom from economic worry while I wrote my fairy drama ... anyhow, please remember that it wasn't ...
— Tramping on Life - An Autobiographical Narrative • Harry Kemp
... was much less interesting than my husband's," answered my young Y friend, and lifting the conversation out of the personal she asked, "Have you read Mr. Keynes' 'The Economic Consequences of the Peace?'" ...
— The Log-Cabin Lady, An Anonymous Autobiography • Unknown
... ravage of the woodlands, the incoming of the tenant from the river-valley counties, the scars on the beautiful face of the land, the scars on the body social of the region—and now he knew another deadlier crisis, both social and economic, ...
— The Heart Of The Hills • John Fox, Jr.


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