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Definition: Economy |
EconomyNoun1. The system of production and distribution and consumption. 2. The efficient use of resources; "economy of effort". 3. Frugality in the expenditure of money or resources; "the Scots are famous for their economy". 4. An act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day" or "there was a saving of 50 cents". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "economy" was first used: sometime in the late 14th century. (references) |
Etymology: Economy \E*con"o*my\, noun; plural Economies. [French ['e]conomie, Latin oeconomia household management, from Greek, from one managing a household; house (akin to Latin vicus village, English vicinity) usage, law, rule, from ne`mein to distribute, manage. See Vicinity. . (references) |
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Satire | ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | Denying ourselves a necessary today in order to buy a luxury to-morrow. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Business | Acquisition at the right time and at the lowest cost of financial, human and material resources which are suitable in terms of both quality and quantity. Source: European Union. (references) |
Weather | System of production, distribution, and consumption of goods. (references) |
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In Eastern Orthodoxy, economy is discretionary recognition granted by an Orthodox church to sacraments performed in heterodox churches, or recognition granted by Orthodox bishops to sacraments performed in other dioceses or other jurisdictions.The term is also used for any deviation from the standard rules (canons) of the Church that is made with a view towards putting the spirit before the letter and helping the cause of the salvation of souls. Generally only bishops can decide to make such deviations. They are seen to be justifiable because the canons are not laws but rather suggestions and guidelines which might, at times, become an impediment.
However, the normal case should always be Akribia, or strict adherence to the standards.
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Economy - overview:For a quarter-century following independence, Cameroon was one of the most prosperous countries in Africa. The drop in commodity prices for its principal exports--oil, cocoa, coffee, and cotton -- in the mid-1980s, combined with an overvalued currency and economic mismanagement, led to a decade-long recession. Real per capita GDP fell by more than 60% from 1986 to 1994. The current account and fiscal deficits widened, and foreign debt grew. Yet because of its oil resources and favorable agricultural conditions, Cameroon still has one of the best-endowed primary commodity economies in sub-Saharan Africa.
The government embarked upon a series of economic reform programs supported by the World Bank and IMF beginning in the late 1980s. Many of these measures have been painful; the government slashed civil service salaries by 65% in 1993. The CFA franc -- the common currency of Cameroon and 13 other African states -- was devalued by 50% in January 1994. The government failed to meet the conditions of the first four IMF programs.
Recent signs, however, are encouraging. As of March 1998, Cameroon's fifth IMF program -- a 3-year enhanced structural adjustment program approved in August 1997 -- is on track. Cameroon has rescheduled its Paris Club debt at favorable terms. GDP has grown by about 5% a year beginning in 1995. There is cautious optimism that Cameroon is emerging from its long period of economic hardship.
The Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility (ESAF) signed recently by the IMF and Government of Cameroon calls for greater macroeconomic planning and financial accountability; privatization of most of Cameroon's nearly 100 remaining non-financial parastatal enterprises; elimination of state marketing board monopolies on the export of cocoa, certain coffees, and cotton; privatization and price competition in the banking sector; implementation of the 1992 labor code; a vastly improved judicial system; and political liberalization to boost investment.
France is Cameroon's main trading partner and source of private investment and foreign aid. Cameroon has an investment guaranty agreement and a bilateral accord with the United States. U.S. investment in Cameroon is about $1 million, most of it in the oil sector. Inflation has been brought back under control.
For further information on Cameroon's economic trends, trade, or investment climate, contact the International Trade Administration, U. S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230, and Commerce Department district office in any local federal building.
GDP:
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
Labor force: NA
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Industrial production growth rate: NA%
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Economic aid - recipient: $606.1 million (1995); note - France signed two loan agreements totaling $55 million in September 1997, and the Paris Club agreed in October 1997 to reduce the official debt by 50% and to reschedule it on favorable terms with a consolidation of payments due through 2000
Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1 - 647.25 (January 2000), 615.70 (1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996), 499.15 (1995) note: since 1 January 1999, the CFAF is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 CFA francs per euro
Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June
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Economy is a town located in Wayne County, Indiana. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 200.(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Economy is a borough located in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2000 census, the borough had a total population of 9,363.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Economy."
Synonyms: EconomySynonyms: economic system (n), saving (n), thriftiness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conduct | Management; husbandry; housekeeping, housewifery; stewardship; menage; regime; economy, economics; political economy; government; (direction). |
Economy | Verb: be economical; Adjective: practice economy; economize, save; retrench, cut back expenses, cut expenses; cut one's coat according to one's cloth, make both ends meet, keep within compass, meet one's expenses, pay one's way, pay as you go; husband; (lay by). |
Noun: economy, frugality; thrift, thriftiness; care, husbandry, good housewifery, savingness, retrenchment. | |
Order | Subordination; course, even tenor, routine; method, disposition, arrangement, array, system, economy, discipline orderliness; Adjective: |
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Screenplays | No, ma'am, I'm with the economy tour (Octopussy; writing credit: George MacDonald Fraser) You can't gear a country's economy for war for 20 years, then suddenly slam on the brakes and expect the whole transition to go like grease through a goose (Seven Days in May; writing credit: Fletcher Knebel; Charles W. Bailey II) I think what our insightful young friend is saying is that we welcome the inevitable seasons of nature, but we're upset by the seasons of our economy. (Being There; writing credit: Jerzy Kosinski) | |
Clever | The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on forecasters. (references; author: unknown) How to act insane: Tell your children over dinner, "Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go. (references; author: unknown) I think I've found the trouble with our economy. There are far more ways to get into debt than there are to get out of it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Economy (1917) | |
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 | Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Fish sustain a local fishing economy and contribute to the diversity of life on the reef. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Fishing in Lake Sugema, a lake formed by a dam built as part of the Indian Creek-Van Buren Watershed Project in Van Buren County. The dam provides recreation, water supply, and flood control, and boosts the local economy. Credit: Lynn Betts. |
 | Three Mile Lake in Union County is a lake built as part of the Three Mile Watershed project. The dam provides recreation, water supply, and flood control, and boosts the local economy. Credit: Lynn Betts. |  | Studying political economy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Good political economy. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Evils of economy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The "economy" fishing trips. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Rising interest rates about to puncture an inflated economy. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Death on economy. U.S. "I suppose I must spend a little on life-saving service, life-boat stations, life-boats, surf-boats, etc.; but it is too bad to be obliged to waste so much money" / Th. Nast. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Economy Light & Power Co.'s canal, Joliet, Ill's. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Haddon Spurgeon | Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well. |
Edmund Burke | Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. |
Henry James | In art economy is always beauty. |
Henry Wheeler Shaw | Economy is a savings bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return. |
Karl Marx | All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy. |
Seneca | Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse. |
Thomas Jefferson | I, however, place economy among the first and most important of republican virtues, and public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Political economy sees in it a detritus, social philosophy sees in it a residuum |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | By which the reader may conceive an idea of the ingenuity of that people, as well as the prudent and exact economy of so great a prince |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of. |
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Health | So imprinted in our minds is the fear of plague that, even now, entering into the 21st century, a suspected plague outbreak can incite mass panic and bring much of the world's economy to a temporary standstill. (references) | |
Business | The IVA has a great impact on the entire economy. (references) | |
During 1999, the Peruvian economy recovered slowly. (references) | ||
Greece like other E.U. countries has a market economy. (references) | ||
Children | Dominican Republic | Prostitution is the principal area of exploitation of underage girls in the informal economy. (references) |
Haiti | Society holds such children in little regard, and the poor state of the economy worsened their situation. (references) | |
Fiji | School is mandatory until age 15. Families' inability to pay school fees and bus fare following the downturn in the economy has resulted in a decrease in attendance. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Central African Republic | Muslims play a preponderant role in the economy. (references) |
Cameroon | In the article, he linked the Minister of Economy and Finance to an embezzlement case without citing sources. (references) | |
Togo | NGO's involved with finance, such as credit unions and cooperatives, must register with the Ministry of Finance and Economy. (references) | |
Economic History | Mauritius | Mauritius has a liberal economy. (references) |
Gabon | Gabon's economy is dominated by oil. (references) | |
Oman | Oman promotes a free market economy. (references) | |
Human Rights | Slovak Republic | The former Prime Minister Meciar's party, the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS), alleged that the January 1999 killing of Jan Ducky, the former Economy Minister under the Meciar Government and head of the national gas distribution monopoly, was the result of a political vendetta. (references) |
Ukraine | Judges report that there has been a significant increase in the number of defendants who have been charged with very serious crimes during the transitional period from a Soviet command-based economy, which partly accounts for the substantially high number of individuals in pretrial detention. (references) | |
Iraq | In a report released by the U.N. Secretary General on September 13, the U.N. Special Rapporteur criticized the Government for the "sheer number of executions" taking place in the country, the number of "extrajudicial executions on political grounds," and "the absence of a due process of the law." The list of offenses requiring a mandatory death penalty has grown substantially in the past few years and now includes anything that could be characterized as "sabotaging the national economy," including forgery, as well as smuggling cars, spare parts, material, heavy equipment, and machinery. (references) | |
Minorities | Ireland | Many Travellers were dependent on social welfare for survival and were unable to participate in the mainstream economy because of discrimination and a lack of education. (references) |
Indonesia | Ethnic Chinese, who represent approximately 3 percent of the population--by far the largest nonindigenous minority group--historically have played a major role in the economy. (references) | |
Spain | Roma also have higher rates of unemployment and underemployment, and up to 80 percent of employed adults work in the informal economy as peddlers or in seasonal agricultural work. (references) | |
Political Economy | URUGUAY | Uruguay is a market-oriented economy. (references) |
URUGUAY | A large part of the economy is dollarized. (references) | |
FINLAND | The Finnish economy faces two major challenges. (references) | |
Political Rights | Yugoslavia | Few members of other ethnic groups are involved at the top levels of government or the state-run economy; however, Rasim Ljajic, a Sandzak Muslim leader, was appointed the Federal Minister for Minority Affairs in November 2000. Roma have the right to vote and there are two small Roma parties in Serbia. (references) |
Turkmenistan | Women serve in the following positions: Deputy Chairman for Economy and Finance; Prosecutor General; Ambassador to the U.N.; Chief of Presidential Protocol; Head of the Mejilis (Parliamentary) Committee on Science, Education, and Culture; Deputy Minister for Economy and Finance; and Deputy Minister for Social Protection. (references) | |
Suriname | The law allows early elections with the concurrence of both the National Assembly and the President; in May 1999, widespread street demonstrations triggered by the declining economy forced the Government of then-President Wijdenbosch to call early elections, which were held in May 2000. After those elections, which observers considered to be generally free and fair, the National Assembly elected NPS leader Ronald Venetiaan as President in August 2000. The Constitution provides for the organization and functioning of political parties. (references) | |
Trade | Bulgaria | Bulgaria is predominantly a cash economy. (references) |
Singapore | Singapore is generally a free port and an open economy. (references) | |
Vietnam | Most sectors of the economy are likely to pay less under VAT. (references) | |
Travel | Spain | Spain is a developed and stable democracy with a modern economy. (references) |
Lithuania | Major hotels, quality restaurants, and some stores accept credit cards, but it is still mainly a cash economy. (references) | |
Jamaica | Jamaica is an import-oriented economy and hence prices of most products in general are higher than in the United States. (references) | |
Women | Cambodia | It was not known to be a problem in other sectors of the economy. (references) |
Bolivia | Young girls often leave school early to work at home or in the economy. (references) | |
Guatemala | More working women than men are employed in the informal sector of the economy, where pay and benefits generally are lower. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Tuvalu | Children rarely are employed outside the traditional economy. (references) |
Nicaragua | A different minimum wage applies to each sector of the economy. (references) | |
Burundi | Tutsis dominate the formal sector of the economy and the unions. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EPIGRAM, n. A short, sharp saying in prose or verse, frequently characterize by acidity or acerbity and sometimes by wisdom. Following are some of the more notable epigrams of the learned and ingenious Dr. Jamrach Holobom: We know better the needs of ourselves than of others. To serve oneself is economy of administration. In each human heart are a tiger, a pig, an ass and a nightingale. Diversity of character is due to their unequal activity. There are three sexes; males, females and girls. Beauty in women and distinction in men are alike in this: they seem to be the unthinking a kind of credibility. Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of. While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both his. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Donald Evans | We'll say it will be later rather than sooner, Bob. I mean, what we're saying is, the sooner we get the stimulus into the economy, the sooner we will begin our recovery. |
Mark Shields | We have to take a break, but when we come back we'll ask Secretary of Commerce Don Evans if trade negotiation authority is essential for the U.S. economy. |
Rush Limbaugh | The economy is not static. |
Senator Paul Sarbanes | Well, I certainly hope not. I certainly hope we won't get there. And I don't think there are any clear signals at the moment that that's where we're going. In fact, the economy is strengthening a bit. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | On none can delay be more injurious or an economy of time more valuable. |
Calvin Coolidge | 1923-1929 | Economy is idealism in its most practical form. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Prices throughout the entire economy have been pressing hard against the price ceilings. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Strengthening the economy That task must begin at home. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Both strengthen America and give stability to our economy. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Nevertheless, the economy has proved to be remarkably resilient. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Already, pushing down tax rates has freed our economy to vault forward to record growth. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Where we reconcile the needs of a clean environment and a strong economy. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Once again, our economy is the strongest on Earth. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | Double taxation is bad for our economy. |
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| "Economy" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.28% of the time. "Economy" is used about 9,892 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.28% | 9,821 | 962 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.63% | 62 | 42,755 |
| Noun (common) | 0.09% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9,892 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "economy" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Economy | Last name | 170 | 40,852 |
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1. Economy, IN (town, FIPS 20152) 2. Economy, PA (borough, FIPS 22264) |
Expressions using "economy": agricultural economy ♦ barter economy ♦ black economy ♦ blooming economy ♦ capitalist economy ♦ cash economy ♦ command economy ♦ communist economy ♦ concerted economy ♦ controlled economy ♦ depressed economy ♦ domestic economy ♦ economy bain n ♦ economy class ♦ economy drive ♦ economy fare ♦ economy income ♦ economy measure ♦ economy measures ♦ economy of nature ♦ economy of scale ♦ economy pack ♦ electronic economy ♦ free economy ♦ free enterprise economy ♦ free market economy ♦ global economy ♦ grey economy ♦ inflationary economy ♦ informal economy ♦ liberal economy ♦ managed economy ♦ market economy ♦ market oriented economy ♦ mixed economy ♦ motion economy ♦ nation economy ♦ national economy ♦ nonmarket economy ♦ nonmarket industrial economy ♦ observe economy ♦ open economy ♦ overheating of the economy ♦ planned economy ♦ political economy ♦ power economy ♦ public economy ♦ reflate the economy ♦ revitalize the economy ♦ riddled economy ♦ sagging economy ♦ scale economy ♦ shadow economy ♦ slowdown in the economy ♦ socialist economy ♦ stable economy ♦ submerged economy ♦ Token Economy ♦ troubled economy ♦ underground economy ♦ unofficial economy ♦ worldwide economy. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "economy": economy-halting, economy-in-exile, economy-minded, economy-oriented, economy-related, economy-sized, economy-subsistence, economy-watchers, economy-who, economy-wide, economy-wrecking. | |
Ending with "economy": advanced-economy, black-economy, counter-economy, dis-economy, e-economy, fuel-economy, host-economy, macro-economy, market-economy, meso-economy, mixed-economy, petro-economy, siege-economy, space-economy, state-economy, sub-economy, tuned-for-economy, world-economy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
business and economy | 2,787 | new economy | 57 |
economy | 1,448 | market economy | 55 |
fuel economy | 391 | brazil economy | 55 |
economy car rental | 326 | economy tractor | 50 |
economy travel | 283 | indian economy | 49 |
us economy | 157 | token economy | 47 |
economy global israel political | 108 | economy car | 44 |
economy inn | 101 | mexico economy | 44 |
economy of scale | 93 | economy flight | 41 |
china economy | 90 | american economy | 41 |
global economy | 88 | california economy | 40 |
argentina economy | 78 | russian economy | 40 |
japan economy | 75 | france economy | 37 |
economy news | 68 | australian economy | 37 |
world economy | 67 | economy rent a car | 37 |
philippine economy | 65 | canada economy | 37 |
united state economy | 64 | mixed economy | 37 |
canadian economy | 59 | hydrogen economy | 36 |
japanese economy | 58 | command economy | 36 |
economy u.s | 57 | economy sars | 33 |
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| Language | Translations for "economy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ekonomizim, ekonomi (economics, managed economy, prudence, thrift), strukrurë, nikoqirllëk (thriftiness), kursim (frugality, husbandry, parsimony, prudence, saving, stockpiling, thrift). (various references) | |
Arabic | نظام إقتصادي, توفير (frugality, provision, saving, thrift, thriftiness), تدبير (arrangement, concoction, disposal, handling, management, providence, thrift), إقتصاد (frugality, husbandry, providence, prudence, scantiness, thrift). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пестеливост (frugality, husbandry, nearness, parsimony, thrift, thriftiness), икономичен (economic, economical, inexpensive, sparing, thrifty), икономия (husbandry, parsimony, thrift), икономика (economics). (various references) | |
Chinese | "濟制度 , "濟 (economic), 经济 (Economic, Economical, Economics, Economies). (various references) | |
Czech | ekonomika (economics), spořivost (thrift), hospodaření, hospodárnost (thrift, thriftiness), hospodářství (farm, homestead, housekeeping, husbandry), úspornost. (various references) | |
Danish | sparsommelighed. (various references) | |
Dutch | spaarzaamheid, economie (economics). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ekonomio, ŝparo (saving), ŝparado (saving). (various references) | |
Farsi | علم اقتصاد (Economics), صرفه جوءی (Parsimony, Providence, Thrift), اقتصاد. (various references) | |
Finnish | talouselämä (economic life), talousaskare (economic life), talous (house, household), taloudenhoito (management), taloudellisuus, säästäväisyys (thrift), konesaumanne. (various references) | |
French | économie (economics). (various references) | |
French Canadian | économie. (various references) | |
Frisian | ekonomy (economics). (various references) | |
German | wirtschaftlichkeit (economicalness, economics, thrift), wirtschaft (bother, business world, economics, hostel, industry and commerce, inn, pub, public house, saloon, state of affairs, tavern, trouble), Sparsamkeit (canniness, economizing, frugality, parsimony, thrift), Ökonomie. (various references) | |
Greek | οικονομία (husbandry, parsimony, saving, savings, spareness, thrift). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משק (administration, farm, farmstead, household, possession, settlement), קמוץ (clenched, closed, frugality, parsimony, retrenchment, saving, thrift), חסכון (frugality, saving, thrift), חסכ ות (parsimony, retrenchment, thrift, thriftiness), כלכל" (economics, keep, living, maintenance, provision, supply). (various references) | |
Hungarian | gazdaságtan, gazdaság (estate, farm, farmland, property, ranch). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ekonomi (economics), perekonomian (economics matters), keekonomisan (frugality, thriftiness), keekonomian (economics matters). (various references) | |
Italian | economia (economics, parsimoniousness, saving). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 節倹 (thrift), 倹約 (frugality thrifty). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ざいせい (being alive, financial affairs, living), き"しゅく (contraction, retrenchment, shrinkage), せつ'" (curtailment, declaration, persuasion, retrenchment, snow field, urging), せっけ" (conquering, interview, invading, soap, sweeping conquest, sweeping over, thrift), りざい (finance), やすあがり, エコノミー , エコノミ , けいざいせい, けいざい (business, economics, finance, minor offense), け"やく (frugality, thrift), け" (and, authority, bayonet, blade, bond, case, certificate, circle, clock hand, concurrently, coupon, emperor, health, heaven, in addition, item, matter, prefecture, range, sabre, sphere, stick-to-itiveness, sting, strength, sword, tendon, the right, ticket). (various references) | |
Korean | 경 (Economic, Economical, Economics, Economies). (various references) | |
Manx | tarmaynys (economics, good management), ladoose (good management, thrift, thriftiness), farrys (apparatus, appliance, fitment, plant, props, rig). (various references) | |
Norwegian | økonomi (economics). (various references) | |
Papiamen | ekonomia (economics). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | economyay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | economia (economics, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, providence, retrenchment, save, saving, thrift). (various references) | |
Romanian | economisire (economization, saving), economie (chariness, economics, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, prudence, retrenchment, saving, savings, thrift), pãstrare (charge, custody, hoarding, keeping, maintenance, observance of, preservation), organizare (establishment, fix up, form, frame, framing, method, organization, scheme, structure), gospodãrie (establishment, farm, Grange, household, housekeeping, housewifery, house-work, husbandry), agonisire (acquirement). (various references) | |
Russian | сэкономленное, экономия (husbandry, parsimony, saving), экономика;экономия, экономика (economics), бережливость (chariness, frugality, parsimony, thrift, thriftiness). (various references) | |
Scottish | caomhnadh (frugality, reserving, sparing). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | privredni (economic), privreda, štednja (savings). (various references) | |
Spanish | economía (economic austerity, economics, husbandry, thrift). (various references) | |
Swedish | ekonomi (economics, financial position), sparsamhet (frugality, husbandry, thrift, thriftiness), hushållning (economic administration, economize, housekeeping, husbandry). (various references) | |
Thai | เศรษฐกิจ, ที่ราคาถูกกว่า, ระบบ (apparatus, organism, system), ความมัธยัสถ์ (austerity). (various references) | |
Turkish | ekonomik (economic, economical), ekonomi, tasarruf (austerity, possession, Providence, provident, retrenchment, saving, thriftiness), iktisat, idare (admin, administration, chancellery, conduct, control, disposition, dominion, government, handling, helm, management, mastery, regimen, rein, rule, ruling, sparing, steerage, steering, stewardship, supervision, sway, thrift, wire), örgüt (organ, organism, organization). (various references) | |
Turkmen | ykdysady, tygюytlylyk, tygюyt (saving). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | структура (anatomy, architecture, conformation, contexture, fabric, formation, framework, ordonnance, organization, structure), система (chain, method, scheme, set up, system), господарство (farmstead), ощадливість (chariness, frugality, husbandry, parsimony, prudence), економічність, економіка (economics). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự quản lý kinh tế, phương pháp tiết kiệm cơ cấu tổ chức, nền kinh tế. (various references) | |
Welsh | cynildeb (frugality). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | oikonomia. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | diligentia, diligentiam, diligentias, frugalitas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "economy": diseconomy, subeconomy. (additional references) | |
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"Economy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: acronomy, conomy, ecomomy, Econo, econom, economcy, economi, Economie, economuy, econoy, enconomy, Mcconomy, oeconomy. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "economy" (pronounced ikÄ"numē or ēkÄ"numē) |
| 5 | -Ä" n u m ē | astronomy, autonomy, gastronomy. |
| 4 | -n u m ē | anomie, Archenemy, enemy. |
| 3 | -u m ē | academy, alchemy, anatomy, appendectomy, blasphemy, dichotomy, keratotomy, epitome, hysterectomies, hysterectomy, infamy, lumpectomy, mastectomy, monogamy, polygamy, prostatectomy, sesame, sodomy, tonsillectomy, vasectomy. |
| 5 | -Ä" n u m ē | astronomy, autonomy, gastronomy. |
| 4 | -n u m ē | anomie, Archenemy, enemy. |
| 3 | -u m ē | academy, alchemy, anatomy, appendectomy, blasphemy, dichotomy, keratotomy, epitome, hysterectomies, hysterectomy, infamy, lumpectomy, mastectomy, monogamy, polygamy, prostatectomy, sesame, sodomy, tonsillectomy, vasectomy. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: monoecy. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-m-n-o-o-y" | |
-2 letters: coney, cooey, money, moony. | |
-3 letters: come, cone, cony, coon, cyme, meno, mono, mony, moon, nome, omen, once. | |
-4 letters: con, coo, coy, eon, men, moc, mon, moo, nom, noo, one, yen, yom, yon. | |
-5 letters: em, en, me, mo, my, ne, no, oe, om, on, oy, ye, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-m-n-o-o-y" | |
+1 letter: monocyte. | |
+2 letters: honeycomb, monocytes. | |
+3 letters: coryneform, diseconomy, honeycombs, mycetozoan, semicolony, subeconomy. | |
+4 letters: chronometry, coembodying, coemploying, gonadectomy, honeycombed, mesocyclone, mycetozoans, myoclonuses, oneiromancy. | |
+5 letters: commendatory, compensatory, condemnatory, contemporary, countrywomen, economically, honeycombing, mesocyclones, monophyletic, nonhemolytic, oleandomycin. | |
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