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Economic   /ˌɛkənˈɑmɪk/  /ˌikənˈɑmɪk/   Listen
adjective
Economical, Economic  adj.  
1.
Pertaining to the household; domestic. "In this economical misfortune (of ill-assorted matrimony.)"
2.
Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs. "And doth employ her economic art And busy care, her household to preserve."
3.
Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; said of character or habits. "Just rich enough, with economic care, To save a pittance."
4.
Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; using the minimum of time or effort or resources required for effectiveness; frugal; said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of time; an economic use of home heating oil.
5.
Of or pertaining to the national or regional economy; relating to political economy; relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to the production or consumption of goods and services of a nation or region; as, economic growth; economic purposes; economical truths; an economic downturn. "These matters economical and political." "There was no economical distress in England to prompt the enterprises of colonization." "Economic questions, such as money, usury, taxes, lands, and the employment of the people."
6.
Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.
7.
Of or pertaining to economics. "Economic theory"
8.
Profitable. Opposite of uneconomic.
9.
Avoiding waste; as, an economical meal. Opposite of wasteful.
Synonyms: frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting, thrifty. Note: Economical is the usual form when meaning frugal, saving; economic is the form commonly used when meaning pertaining to the management of a household, or of public affairs.





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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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