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Definitions for Economy

[1] thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
[2] an act or means of thrifty saving; a saving: He achieved a small economy by walking to work instead of taking a bus.
[3] the management of the resources of a community, country, etc., especially with a view to its productivity.
[4] the prosperity or earnings of a place: Further inflation would endanger the national economy seriously.
[5] the disposition or regulation of the parts or functions of any organic whole; an organized system or method.
[6] the efficient, sparing, or concise use of something: an economy of effort; an economy of movement.
[7] economy class.
[8] Theology . the divine plan for humanity, from creation through redemption to final beatitude. the method of divine administration, as at a particular time or for a particular race.
[9] Obsolete . the management of household affairs.
[10] intended to save money: to reduce the staff in an economy move.
[11] costing less to make, buy, or operate: an economy car.
[12] of or relating to economy class: the economy fare to San Francisco.
[13] in economy-class accommodations, or by economy-class conveyance: to travel economy.
[14] careful management of resources to avoid unnecessary expenditure or waste; thrift
[15] a means or instance of this; saving
[16] sparing, restrained, or efficient use, esp to achieve the maximum effect for the minimum effort economy of language
[17] the complex of human activities concerned with the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services a particular type or branch of such production, distribution, and consumption a socialist economy ; an agricultural economy
[18] the management of the resources, finances, income, and expenditure of a community, business enterprise, etc
[19] a class of travel in aircraft, providing less luxurious accommodation than first class at a lower fare (as modifier ) economy class
[20] (modifier) offering or purporting to offer a larger quantity for a lower price economy pack
[21] the orderly interplay between the parts of a system or structure the economy of nature
[22] philosophy the principle that, of two competing theories, the one with less ontological presupposition is to be preferred
[23] archaic the management of household affairs; domestic economy

Words related to Economy

recession, layoff, decrease, parsimony, meanness, reduction, cutback, providence, regulation, discretion, thriftiness, thrift, direction, abridgement, restraint, prudence, carefulness, curtailment, austerity, care

Words nearby Economy

economist, economistic, economize, economizer, economo's disease, economy, economy class, economy of scale, economy-class syndrome, economy-size, ecophysiology

Origin of Economy

1520–30; (< Middle French economie ) < Latin oeconomia < Greek oikonomíā household management, equivalent to oîko(s ) house + -nomia -nomy

Other words from Economy

non·e·con·o·my , noun, plural non·e·con·o·mies.
sub·e·con·o·my , noun, plural sub·e·con·o·mies.
su·per·e·con·o·my , noun, plural su·per·e·con·o·mies.

Word origin for Economy

C16: via Latin from Greek oikonomia domestic management, from oikos house + -nomia, from nemein to manage

Synonyms for Economy

recession, abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parsimony, providence, prudence, reduction, regulation, restraint, retrenchment, rollback, shrinkage, stinginess, supervision, thrift, thriftiness, parcity, scrimping, skimping, sparingness