economy

Etymology
From, , borrowed via or Medieval Latin from , from , from  +. . The first recorded sense of the word economy, found in a work possibly composed in 1440, is “the management of economic affairs”, in this case, of a monastery.

Noun

 * 1) Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.
 * 2)  The regular operation of nature in the generation, nutrition and preservation of animals or plants.
 * animal economy, vegetable economy
 * 1)  System of management; general regulation and disposition of the affairs of a state or nation, or of any department of government.
 * 2)  A system of rules, regulations, rites and ceremonies.
 * the Jewish economy
 * 1)  The disposition or arrangement of any work.
 * the economy of a poem
 * 1) The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
 * 2) Frugal use of resources.
 * economy of word
 * 1) * April 5, 1729,, letter to St. John
 * I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease.
 * 1) The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
 * 2)  The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion).)
 * 3)  The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
 * 4)  Management of one’s.
 * 1)  Management of one’s.

Related terms

 * macroeconomics
 * microeconomics
 * microeconomics

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Hijazi Arabic: اِقْتِصاد
 * Belarusian: экано́мія
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Buryat: ажахы
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:, husholdning, husholdning
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ekonomio
 * Finnish:
 * Fula:
 * Adlam: 𞤬𞤢𞤺𞥆𞤵𞤣𞤵
 * Roman: faggudu,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hagur
 * Ido:
 * Irish: barainneacht
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Latvian: ,
 * Malay:
 * Maori: ōhanga, taiōhanga
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: аж ахуй
 * Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⴰⴷⵎⵙⴰ
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: eaconomaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian: acunumìa, cunumìa,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Turkish:, , denlik
 * Ukrainian:
 * Urdu: مَعِیشَت


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: qənaət
 * Bavarian: Wirtschafd
 * Belarusian: экано́мія, ашча́днасць, беражлі́васць
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: किफ़ायत
 * Icelandic: hagsýni, nýtni, ráðdeild, sparnaður
 * Irish: barainneacht
 * Italian: ,
 * Latvian: ekonomija
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: хэмнэлт
 * Norman: êconomie
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Sicilian: sparagnu
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:, , еконо́мність, оща́дливість
 * Urdu: کِفایَت
 * Vietnamese:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani: ,
 * Bashkir: иҡтисад
 * Bavarian: Wirtschafd
 * Belarusian: экано́міка,
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 經濟
 * Dungan: җинҗи
 * Eastern Min: 經濟
 * Hakka: 經濟
 * Hokkien:
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 經濟
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dhivehi: އިޤްތިޞާދު, މައީށަތް
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: búskapur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Fula:
 * Adlam: 𞤬𞤢𞤺𞥆𞤵𞤣𞤵
 * Roman: faggudu
 * Georgian: ეკონომიკა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, किफ़ायत
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: atvinnulif, efnahagslíf
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: geilleagar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kazakh: экономика, ықтисат
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:, кожоюндук
 * Lao:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: സമ്പദ്ഘടന, സമ്പദ്‌വ്യവസ്ഥ
 * Maltese: ekonomija
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: эдийн засаг, аж ахуй
 * Mongolian: ᠡᠳ᠋  ᠦᠨ ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ, ᠠᠵᠤ ᠠᠬᠤᠢ
 * Norman: êconomie
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Ossetian: экономикӕ
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Dari: ,
 * Iranian Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: eaconomaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: привреда, економија, господарство
 * Roman:, ,
 * Shan:
 * Sicilian: ,
 * Sinhalese: අරපරික්සම
 * Slovak:, hospodárstvo
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: ekonomija
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog:, kapamuhayan
 * Tajik: иқтисодиёт, иқтисод
 * Tatar: икътисад
 * Thai:
 * Tibetan: དཔལ་འབྱོར
 * Turkish:, , denlik
 * Turkmen: ykdysadyýet
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Urdu: مَعِیشَت, اِقْتِصاد, اِقْتِصادِیات
 * Uyghur: ئىقتىساد
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: עקאָנאָמיע


 * Estonian:
 * German:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, ,
 * Latin: ,
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Malayalam:
 * Turkish:

Adjective

 * 1) Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money; economical.
 * He bought an economy car.
 * Economy size.

Adverb

 * 1)  In or via the part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying the lower standard fares.
 * Numerous web sites have tips on how to fly economy.

Translations

 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: