Word Meaning

economy definition and meaning

n. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.
n. Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.
n. The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.
n. Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony.

Crossword clues for economy

- Avoidance of waste
- Careful management of money
- Careful usage in order to reduce waste
- Frugality
- It’s not first class, but it shows thrift
- National finances
- National finances determine flight class
- The financial system
- Thrift
- Thriftiness