Definition of "economic" []

• Of or relating to the production, development, and management of material wealth, as of a country, household, or business enterprise. (adjective)
• Of or relating to an economy: a period of sustained economic growth. (adjective)
• Of or relating to the science of economics: new economic theories regarding the effects of deficit spending. (adjective)
• Of or relating to the practical necessities of life; material: wrote the book primarily for economic reasons. (adjective)
• Financially rewarding; economical: It was no longer economic to keep the manufacturing facilities open. (adjective)

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• "We have had 13 years of a so-called Labour government which accepted the whole Thatcherite economic settlement, has seen an increase in social and ­economic inequality; worshipped wealth and fawned on high finance at home and abroad; passed a vast array of repressive laws; betrayed all its ­promises on the single currency? and in the end did more damage to the"
• "We have had 13 years of a so-called Labour government which accepted the whole Thatcherite economic settlement, has seen an increase in social and ­economic inequality; worshipped wealth and fawned on high finance at home and abroad; passed a vast array of repressive laws; betrayed all its ­promises on the single currency - and in the end did more damage to the"
• ""We have had 13 years of a so-called Labour government which accepted the whole Thatcherite economic settlement, has seen an increase in social and ­economic inequality; worshipped wealth and fawned on high finance at home and abroad; passed a vast array of repressive laws; betrayed all its ­promises on the single currency? and in the end did more damage to the"