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Economic

adjective

Of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth. Synonym: economical. "Aspects of social, political, and economical life"

Of or relating to the science of economics.

Using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness. Synonym: economical. "A modern economical heating system" , "An economical use of her time"

Concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money). "Gave up the large house for economic reasons" , "In economic terms they are very privileged"

Financially rewarding. "Have to keep prices high enough to make it economic to continue the service"

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"Economic" Quotes from Famous Books

... philosophy of our politics? I think in many ways; and first, in one particularly. Political economy is the most systematised and most accurate part of political philosophy; and yet, by the help of what has been laid down, I think we may travel back to a sort of 'pre-economic age,' when the very assumptions of political economy did not exist, when its precepts would have been ruinous, and when the very contrary precepts were ...

— Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society • Walter Bagehot

... in the "New England Kitchen," and the "Rumford Food Laboratory;" Author of U. S. Government Bulletins, "Practical Sanitary and Economic Cooking," etc. ...

— Textiles and Clothing • Kate Heintz Watson

... Belinda, "I will not go to the drawing-room."—"Not go, my dear! What! throw away fifty guineas for nothing! Really I never saw any one so lavish of her money, and so economic of her smiles." ...

— Tales and Novels, Vol. III - Belinda • Maria Edgeworth

... African and Indian troubles, and to see in one the relief of the other. The first fruit of his meditations was a letter to The Times. In it he laid down a new theory of emigration. The peoples of the Empire, he said, must be mobile, shifting about to suit economic conditions. But if this was true of the white man, it was equally true for the dark races under our tutelage. He referred to the famine and argued that the recurrence of such disasters was inevitable, unless we assisted ...

— The Moon Endureth--Tales and Fancies • John Buchan

... many cases, possibly on account of the decreased circulation and vitality of the parts, these growths occur in aged animals. Here treatment is not economic, and may for that reason be put out of the question. Further, the growths are more common in heavy cart animals of a lymphatic type than in those of a lighter breed. Couple this with the fact that the tumour is often unattended with pain, ...

— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks

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