economy

  • 11Economy — (spr. ikónnomi), Ort in Pennsylvanien, Grafschaft Beaver, am Ohio, 1825 von Georg Rapp (s. d.) nach den Grundsätzen der Gütergemeinschaft und Ehelosigkeit gegründet, mit (1900) 1062 Einw …

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  • 12economy — I (economic system) noun administration, administration of economics, administration of resources, economic science, management, management of resources, regulation of finances, system of distributing wealth, wealth II (frugality) noun avoidance… …

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  • 13economy — *system, scheme, network, complex, organism Analogous words: organization, institution, establishment, foundation (see corresponding verbs at FOUND) …

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  • 14economy — [n] saving, frugality abridgement, austerity, care, carefulness, caution, curtailment, cutback, decrease, deduction, direction, discretion, husbandry, layoff, meanness, miserliness, moratorium, niggardliness, parcity, parsimony, providence,… …

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  • 15economy — ▪ I. economy e‧con‧o‧my 1 [ɪˈkɒnəmi ǁ ɪˈkɑː ] noun economies PLURALFORM 1. [countable] ECONOMICS the system by which a country s goods and services are produced and used, or a country considered in this way: • the transformation from a centrally… …

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  • 16Economy — For other uses, see Economy (disambiguation). Economics …

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  • 17economy — noun 1 operation of a country s money supply ADJECTIVE ▪ booming, buoyant (esp. BrE), dynamic, healthy, prosperous, robust, sound, stable, strong, thriv …

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  • 18economy — Synonyms and related words: GNP, barter economy, brevity, briefness, budget, capitalistic economy, carefulness, cheap, cheeseparing, collectivized economy, compactness, conciseness, concision, conservation, conservatism, consumer economy, control …

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  • 19economy —    The Spanish economy is a modern western style economy based principally on the services sector, which generates just over 60 percent of the country s wealth, compared to about one third generated by industry and construction combined, and… …

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  • 20economy — I UK [ɪˈkɒnəmɪ] / US [ɪˈkɑnəmɪ] noun Word forms economy : singular economy plural economies *** 1) [countable] the system by which a country s trade, industry, and money are organized a modern industrial economy the high growth economies of… …

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