Economy

Definition:

  • (n.) The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.
  • (n.) Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.
  • (n.) The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.
  • (n.) Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony.

Compare economy with other words:

economy vs. population

economy vs. polity

economy vs. waste

economy vs. extravagance

economy vs. husbandable

economy vs. providentness

commerce vs. economy

economy vs. law

economy vs. finance

economy vs. save

economy vs. saving

economizer vs. economy

economy vs. locomotive

depress vs. economy

economically vs. economy

economy vs. prudence

economies vs. economy

contagion vs. economy

economy vs. order

economization vs. economy

economy vs. parsimony

economy vs. money

economy vs. value

economize vs. economy

economist vs. economy

economical vs. economy

economic vs. economy

economy vs. government

divine vs. economy

consumption vs. economy

economy vs. production

distribution vs. economy

economy vs. resource

economy vs. system

economy vs. management

economy vs. socialism

economics vs. economy

economy vs. stickiness

compact vs. economy

coach vs. economy