economy
Part of speech: noun
adj
adv
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
Etymology: From Middle English yconomye, yconomy, borrowed via Old French [Term?] or Medieval Latin from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + νέμω (némō, “distribute, allocate”). By surface analysis, eco- + -nomy. 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.
Inflected forms:
form: economies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: oeconomy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: œconomy
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: oeconomy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: œconomy
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: oeconomy
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
form: œconomy
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: animal economy, vegetable economy
gloss: Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: the Jewish economy
gloss: Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
examples: the economy of a poem
The place pleased them so much that they spent all their spare time there, scratching and cutting their names on the top of every tower; and at last, having exhausted all other places, finished up with inscribing H.EAST, T.BROWN, on the minute-hand of the great clock; in the doing of which they held the minute-hand, and disturbed the clock's economy.
gloss: The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Frugal use of resources.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: economy of word
April 5, 1729, Jonathan Swift, letter to St. John
I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease.
Every possible economy was carefully investigated and unnecessary expense, however small, eliminated. The company had no money to spare on "frills."
gloss: The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: An economy open to free movement of capital can keep a fixed exchange rate, for example, only by subjugating monetary-policy goals to its defence—by raising interest rates sharply, say, when capital outflows put downward pressure on the currency. Yet the trilemma also implies that an economy can enjoy both free capital flows and an independent monetary policy, so long as it gives up worrying about its exchange rate. […] As advanced economies opened their monetary spigots to boost ailing economies, emerging-market complaints grew louder.
gloss: The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The economy of God is in Jesus Christ alone.
gloss: The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
pos: noun
tags: US
countable
uncountable
gloss: Management of one’s residency.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
gloss: Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money; economical.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: He bought an economy car.
Economy size.
gloss: In or via the part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying the lower standard fares.
pos: adv
tags: US
not-comparable
examples: Numerous web sites have tips on how to fly economy.
Related words: macroeconomics
microeconomics
economics
Derived words: agroeconomy
agro-economy
attention economy
bioeconomy
black economy
blue economy
centrally planned economy
circular economy
collaborative economy
command economy
cybereconomy
diseconomy
dual economy
economic
economical
economism
economist
economize
economocracy
economy car
economy class
economy class syndrome
economy model
economy of scale
economy picking
economy rate
economy rice
economywide
economywise
e-economy
false economy
fuel economy
gift economy
gig economy
Goldilocks economy
hydrogen economy
lithium economy
macroeconomy
market economy
microeconomy
micro-economy
mixed economy
money economy
narcoeconomy
natural economy
palaeoeconomy
peer-to-peer economy
pharmacoeconomy
planned economy
policy economy
political economy
premium economy
quaternary sector of the economy
reputation economy
service economy
sex economy
share economy
sharing economy
sheconomy
socioeconomy
subeconomy
subsistence economy
supereconomy
tangible economy
tiger economy
token economy
transition economy
zombie economy
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: اِقْتِصاد
roman: iqtiṣād
lang: Arabic
word: اِقْتِصاد
roman: igtiṣād
lang: Belarusian
word: экано́мія
roman: ekanómija
lang: Bulgarian
word: иконо́мика
roman: ikonómika
lang: Bulgarian
word: стопа́нство
roman: stopánstvo
lang: Buryat
word: ажахы
roman: ažaxy
lang: Catalan
word: economia
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 經濟 /经济
roman: jīngjì
lang: Danish
word: økonomi
lang: Danish
word: husholdning
lang: Dutch
word: economie
lang: Esperanto
word: ekonomio
lang: Finnish
word: talous
lang: French
word: économie
lang: Fula
word: 𞤬𞤢𞤺𞥆𞤵𞤣𞤵
lang: Fula
word: faggudu
lang: Fula
word: ekonomija
lang: German
word: Wirtschaft
lang: German
word: Ökonomie
lang: Greek
word: οικονομία
roman: oikonomía
lang: Hungarian
word: gazdaság
lang: Icelandic
word: hagur
lang: Ido
word: ekonomio
lang: Irish
word: barainneacht
lang: Italian
word: economia
lang: Japanese
word: 経済
roman: keizai
lang: Korean
word: 경제
roman: gyeongje
lang: Latvian
word: ekonomika
lang: Latvian
word: saimniecība
lang: Malay
word: ekonomi
lang: Māori
word: ōhanga
lang: Māori
word: taiōhanga
lang: Mirandese
word: eiquenomie
lang: Mirandese
word: eiconomie
lang: Mongolian
word: аж ахуй
roman: až axuj
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: økonomi
lang: Occitan
word: economia
lang: Polish
word: gospodarka
lang: Portuguese
word: economia
lang: Russian
word: эконо́мия
roman: ekonómija
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: eaconomaidh
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: gospodarstvo
lang: Sicilian
word: acunumìa
lang: Sicilian
word: cunumìa
lang: Sicilian
word: ecunumìa
lang: Spanish
word: economía
lang: Swahili
word: uchumi
lang: Swedish
word: ekonomi
lang: Swedish
word: hushållning
lang: Tagalog
word: ekonomiya
lang: Turkish
word: ekonomi
lang: Turkish
word: iktisat
lang: Turkish
word: denlik
lang: Ukrainian
word: еконо́мія
roman: ekonómija
lang: Urdu
word: مَعِیشَت
roman: ma'īśat