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economy
noun
1 economy
The system of production and distribution and consumption.
synonym: economic system.
Roget 58:
order,
regularity,
uniformity,
symmetry,
lucidus ordo [Lat.];
music of the spheres.
gradation,
progression;
series
etc.
(continuity)
69.
subordination;
course,
even tenor,
routine;
method,
disposition,
arrangement,
array,
system,
economy,
discipline orderliness
etc.
adj..
rank,
place
etc.
(term)
71.
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Roget 692:
conduct
[actions of an individual agent];
behavior;
deportment,
comportment;
carriage,
maintien†,
demeanor,
guise,
bearing,
manner,
observance.
dealing,
transaction
etc.
(action)
680;
business
etc.
625.
tactics,
game,
game plan,
policy,
polity;
generalship,
statesmanship,
seamanship;
strategy,
strategics†;
plan
etc.
626.
management;
husbandry;
housekeeping,
housewifery;
stewardship;
menage;
regime;
economy,
economics;
political economy;
government
etc.
(direction)
693.
execution,
manipulation,
treatment,
campaign,
career,
life,
course,
walk,
race,
record.
course of conduct,
line of conduct,
line of action,
line of proceeding;
role;
process,
ways,
practice,
procedure,
modus operandi,
MO,
method of operating;
method
&c.;
path
etc.
627.
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Dutch: economisch systeem, economie
Polish: typ gospodarki, gospodarka, system ekonomiczny, ekonomika
2 economy
The efficient use of resources.
Dutch: economie
3 economy
Frugality in the expenditure of money or resources:
— The Scots are famous for their economy.
synonym: thriftiness.
Roget 817:
economy,
frugality;
thrift,
thriftiness;
care,
husbandry,
good housewifery,
savingness†,
retrenchment.
savings;
prevention of waste,
save-all;
cheese parings and candle ends;
parsimony
etc.
819.
cost-cutting,
cost control.
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Dutch: karigheid, spaarzaamheid, zuinigheid
Polish: ekonomiczność
4 economy
An act of economizing; reduction in cost:
— It was a small economy to walk to work every day.
synonym: saving.
Dutch: bezuiniging, ombuiging, uitsparing
Polish: oszczędność
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