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economic

See also: econòmic

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Etymology

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From Middle French economique, from Latin oeconomicus, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομικός (oikonomikós, “skilled with household management”).

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economic (comparative more economic, superlative most economic)

  1. Pertaining to an economy.
    • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
    • 2021 January 7, Charles Hugh Smith, The Tyranny Nobody Talks About‎[1]:
      There is much talk of tyranny in the political realm, but little is said about the tyrannies in the economic realm, a primary one being the tyranny of high costs: high costs crush the economy from within and enslave those attempting to start enterprises or keep their businesses afloat.
  2. Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value); economical.
  3. Pertaining to the study of money and its movement.
  4. (obsolete) Pertaining to the management of a household
    • 1714 [1599], John Davies, edited by Nahum Tate, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul‎[2], 2nd edition, London: Hammond Banks, page 64:
      And doth employ her Oeconomick Art, and buisy Care, her Houshold to preserve

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Modern usage prefers economic when describing the economy of a region or country (and when referring to personal or family budgeting).
Economical is preferred when referring to thrift or value for money.

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economic m pl

  1. plural of economich

Occitan

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Etymology

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From Latin oeconomicus.

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economic m (feminine singular economica, masculine plural economics, feminine plural economicas)

  1. economic

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Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French économique. By surface analysis, economie +‎ -ic.

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economic m or n (feminine singular economică, masculine plural economici, feminine and neuter plural economice)

  1. economic
  2. economical

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Declension of economic
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite economic economică economici economice
definite economicul economica economicii economicele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite economic economice economici economice
definite economicului economicei economicelor economicilor
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