(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two of the largest markets are Germany and South Korea, often held up as shining examples of export-led economies.
(2) King also described how representatives of every country at this month's G7 meeting in Canada seemed to be relying on an export-led recovery to revive their economies.
(3) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(4) Maybe the world economy goes tits up again, only this time we punish the rich instead of the poor.
(5) It is widely seen as a counter to China’s economic might in Asia, and the world’s second largest economy is notably absent from the list of signatories.
(6) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(7) October 23, 2013 3.55pm BST Another reason to be concerned about the global economy - Canada's central bank has slashed its economic forecasts for the US.
(8) The last time Vince Cable had a seat in the business department, it was during a high noon of industrial action and state interference in the economy.
(9) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
(10) It is worth noting though that the government is reaping scant reward in the polls even though the economy has expanded by more than 3% over the past year and – according to the IMF – will be the fastest growing of the G7 economies this year.
(11) Gerhard Schröder , Merkel’s immediate predecessor, had pushed through parliament a radical reform agenda to get the country’s spluttering economy back on track.
(12) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(13) Yes, we need consumption to get the economy moving, but if you spend more than you have, you’re not helping anyone and certainly not helping yourself.
(14) China’s stock market rout Shanghai stocks Chinese shares have tumbled in recent weeks against the backdrop of a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy .
(15) Unfortunately, under the Faustian pact we have witnessed a double whammy: fiscal policy being used to reduce government spending when the economy is already depressed.
(16) This has been manageable, even beneficial to the economy when people slowly climbed the property ladder.
(17) "It will mean root-and-branch change for our banks if we are to deliver real change for Britain, if we are to rebuild our economy so it works for working people, and if we are to restore trust in a sector of our economy worth billions of pounds and hundreds of thousands of jobs to our country."
(18) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
(19) Tim Moore, senior economist at Markit, said: "Construction is no longer the weakest link in the UK economy.
(20) The deal will also be scrutinised to see if its claims of new billions to jump start world economies prove to be inflated.
Thriftiness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.
Example Sentences:
(1) The amount of this dye required for various staining solutions was calculated to determine thrifty usage.
(2) Surgical approach of benign nodules and goiters in euthyroid patients is not yet well definite concerning the latent of the resection: has it to be large (for avoiding recurrence) of thrifty (in the aim of decreasing the necessity of postoperative thyroid replacement therapy)?
(3) Has anyone seen the price of Foie gras and Armand de Brignac... we need at least 25% July 1, 2013 And, ever the solutions man, he also had advice for those wishing to keep cool in the hot weather: Iain Duncan Smith MP (@IDS_MP) A thrifty way to keep cool in this heat wave is to dab the ice from your Champagne bucket onto your forehead.
(4) It also is hypothesized that this thrifty genotype in these Indians may contribute to NIDDM when a sedentary life-style is adopted and food sources are constant.
(5) A 0.5% level of dietary isoleucine (2.2% of total nitrogen X 6.25) was the lowest level fed that did not have a response significantly lower than the higher levels fed, and that generally promoted a thrifty and well-groomed appearance of the animals.
(6) New Zealanders, particularly those in the South Island, may have adapted to their low Se environment by thriftiness in urinary excretion of Se.
(7) David Palmer-Jones, CEO of recycling company SITA, said: “The EU rightly wants to move the UK from a throw-away to a thrifty society.
(8) With an assured food supply and a sedentary lifestyle, however, the 'thrifty' genotype(s) becomes disadvantageous, leading to obesity, increased insulin resistance, beta cell decompensation, and NIDDM (3,6).
(9) It’s in the nature of Smaland to be thrifty,” he said, referring to Sweden’s southern agricultural region where he comes from.
(10) Which leads to discussing its connections to a death-instinct and masochism, and to situate narcissism as an easy way to find a balance as opposed to an elaborate and thrifty but disordered imbalance, and in its constructive value for one's identity.
(11) In May, her blog won the judges' choice prize at the glitzy Fortnum and Mason food awards (they praised Monroe's recipes as "so nutritious and thrifty that they are being handed out by food banks as examples of how to manage on next to nothing").
(12) Swabians are well-known for their thriftiness in Germany .
(13) The Wilting Flower by Doncaster designer Carl Smith ( coroflot.com ) blooms when you're energy thrifty and wilts when you're wasteful.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Uber’s subsidizing of fares has helped it to built a loyal base of thrifty fans.
(15) The London Community Credit Union has 12,000 Hackney and Tower Hamlets members, low-earning thrifty savers who are about to be hit hard.
(16) The frequency of this salt-conserving (thrifty) genotype in Western hemisphere blacks may have been further increased as a consequence of severe selection pressures for survival based on the ability to conserve sodium during the slavery period of history in the West.
(17) During my childhood, my mother baked a cake every Saturday: I remember Victoria sponges, cherry madeiras, chocolate sandwich cakes, coffee and walnut cakes with buttercream icing, dundee cake, and being allowed to “clean out” the last remnants of the mix (never enough, for my mother was a thrifty wielder of her spatula).
(18) To serve as the basis of cost comparison, USDA "moderate-cost" and "thrifty" menus for one week were modified to meet guidelines for a cholesterol-lowering diet.
(19) In accordance with the thrifty gene hypothesis, the insulin resistance gene has protected individuals during long periods of starving by storing energy as fat rather than as glycogen in muscle.
(20) The older generation were far more thrifty than us."