Talk:economical

RFV discussion: October 2015–January 2016
Rfv-sense: Relating to economy in any other sense. What does this actually refer to, specifically? I have no idea. ---&#62; Tooironic (talk) 01:32, 19 October 2015 (UTC)


 * I've added four quotations. Maybe the sense would be more clearly phrased "Relating to an economy or economics." —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 03:49, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd consider that sense of economical to be archaic. It is no accident that the one cite from a native speaker is from 169 years ago and the other three are apparently from non-native speakers. DCDuring TALK 16:51, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Good point. I've added the label "archaic". —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 21:24, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Indeed. I've always thought "economic" could never mean "economical", but I suppose it might have originally at some point in time. ---&#62; Tooironic (talk) 04:07, 21 October 2015 (UTC)


 * RFV-passed. - -sche (discuss) 09:33, 26 January 2016 (UTC)


 * I disagree with the specific label applied. Better would have been something like dated or uncommon.
 * The British National Corpus, for example, contains several instances in which "economical" is used in sense 3. For example:
 * "talks about moving forward as [he/she] states it in the economical situation the council is in."
 * "his attitude can not be blamed on his economical situation."
 * "not bad from an environmental, as well as economical point of view."
 * "the value of the soup from an economical point of view is also lost."
 * "In the original case that was put forward, the basis of the economical assessment and its traffic flows, was on the western relief road being the first"
 * "the effects of price, technical change and structural adjustment), the technological and economical assessment of alternative energy production systems, and the impact of new electronics related technologies"
 * These are generally from the 1980's and expressed by (British) native speakers of English. The surrounding text further illustrates that this is not 'archaic' usage.
 * —DIV (120.17.142.198 12:15, 26 September 2017 (UTC))