Definition of "economy" []

• Careful, thrifty management of resources, such as money, materials, or labor: learned to practice economy in making out the household budget. (noun)
• An example or result of such management; a saving. (noun)
• The system or range of economic activity in a country, region, or community: Effects of inflation were felt at every level of the economy. (noun)
• A specific type of economic system: an industrial economy; a planned economy. (noun)
• 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). (noun)
• Careful management of resources to avoid unnecessary expenditure or waste; thrift (noun)

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.

• A means or instance of this; saving (noun)
• Sparing, restrained, or efficient use, esp to achieve the maximum effect for the minimum effort (noun)
• The complex of human activities concerned with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services (noun)
• A particular type or branch of such production, distribution, and consumption (noun)
• The management of the resources, finances, income, and expenditure of a community, business enterprise, etc (noun)
• A class of travel in aircraft, providing less luxurious accommodation than first class at a lower fare (noun)
• (as modifier) (noun)
• Offering or purporting to offer a larger quantity for a lower price (noun)
• The orderly interplay between the parts of a system or structure (noun)
• The principle that, of two competing theories, the one with less ontological presupposition is to be preferred (noun)
• The management of household affairs; domestic economy (noun)

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