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economic
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UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪk/, /ˌɛkəˈnɒmɪk/ US:USA pronunciation: IPAUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk, ˌikə-/ US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(ek′ə nom′ik, ē′kə-)
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026ec•o•nom•ic /ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪk, ˌikə-/USA pronunciation
adj.
- Business[before a noun] of or relating to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and goods and services.
- Business[before a noun] of or relating to the science of economics.
- Businesseconomical.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026ec•o•nom•ic
(ek′ə nom′ik, ē′kə-),USA pronunciation adj.
- Businesspertaining to the production, distribution, and use of income, wealth, and commodities.
- Businessof or pertaining to the science of economics.
- Businesspertaining to an economy, or system of organization or operation, esp. of the process of production.
- Businessinvolving or pertaining to one's personal resources of money:to give up a large house for economic reasons.
- Businesspertaining to use as a resource in the economy:economic entomology; economic botany.
- Businessaffecting or apt to affect the welfare of material resources:weevils and other economic pests.
- Businesseconomical.
- Greek oikonomikós relating to household management, equivalent. to oikonóm(os) steward (oîko(s) house + nómos manager) + -ikos -ic
- Latin oeconomicus
- Middle French economique)
- (1585–95
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
economic /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪk; ˌɛkə-/ adj - of or relating to an economy, economics, or finance
- Brit capable of being produced, operated, etc, for profit; profitable
- concerning or affecting material resources or welfare: economic pests
- concerned with or relating to the necessities of life; utilitarian
- a variant of economical
- informal inexpensive; cheap
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