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Careful, thrifty management of resources, such as money, materials, or labor: learned to practice economy in making out the household budget.
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An example or result of such management; a saving.
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The system or range of economic activity in a country, region, or community: Effects of inflation were felt at every level of the economy.
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A specific type of economic system: an industrial economy; a planned economy.
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An orderly, functional arrangement of parts; an organized system: "the sense that there is a moral economy in the world, that good is rewarded and evil is punished” ( George F. Will).
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Careful management of resources to avoid unnecessary expenditure or waste; thrift
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American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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A means or instance of this; saving
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Sparing, restrained, or efficient use, esp to achieve the maximum effect for the minimum effort
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The complex of human activities concerned with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
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A particular type or branch of such production, distribution, and consumption
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The management of the resources, finances, income, and expenditure of a community, business enterprise, etc
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A class of travel in aircraft, providing less luxurious accommodation than first class at a lower fare
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Offering or purporting to offer a larger quantity for a lower price
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The orderly interplay between the parts of a system or structure
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The principle that, of two competing theories, the one with less ontological presupposition is to be preferred
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The management of household affairs; domestic economy
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