economy

1. n. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. Source: opted

2. 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. Source: opted

3. 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. Source: opted

4. 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. Source: opted

5. n. the system of production and distribution and consumption Source: wordnet

6. n. the efficient use of resources Source: wordnet

7. n. frugality in the expenditure of money or resources Source: wordnet

8. n. an act of economizing; reduction in cost Source: wordnet

9. n:100 n. the system of production and distribution and consumption n. the efficient use of resources n. frugality in the expenditure of money or resources n. an act of economizing; reduction in cost Source: ecdict

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