economy
/iˈkɑ.nə.mi/ noun B1- The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
- Frugal use of resources. · economy of word
- The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
- The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
- The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
Plural economies
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The major seated himself, therefore, by the side of Danglars, who was more and more charmed with the ideas of order and economy which ruled this man, and yet who, being able to allow his son 60,000 francs a year, might be supposed to possess a fortune of 500,000 or 600,000 livres.
It will save me a world of trouble and economy.
Such relief, however, as it was in her power to afford, by the practice of what might be called economy in her own private expenses, she frequently sent them.
To no class of persons is the presentation of a gratuitous opera-box more acceptable than to the wealthy millionaire, who still hugs economy while boasting of carrying a king’s ransom in his waistcoat pocket.
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