economy
21economy — e|con|o|my1 [ ı kanəmi ] noun *** 1. ) count the system by which a country s trade, industry, and money are organized: a modern, industrial economy the high growth economies of Southeast Asia a market/capitalist/planned economy a ) the whole of a …
22economy — /i kon euh mee/, n., pl. economies, adj., adv. n. 1. thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc. 2. an act or means of thrifty saving; a saving: He achieved a small economy by walking to work instead… …
23economy — [[t]ɪkɒ̱nəmi[/t]] ♦ economies 1) N COUNT An economy is the system according to which the money, industry, and trade of a country or region are organized. Zimbabwe boasts Africa s most industrialised economy. 2) N COUNT: usu the N in sing A… …
24Economy — With the exception of a brief period of entrepreneurial experimentation under Vladimir Lenin’s “New Economic Policy” (NEP) from 1921 to 1928, the Soviet economy was historically dominated by the state. Joseph Stalin’s centrally planned… …
25Economy — Israel s economy has made impressive progress, and the economic well being of its people has improved significantly since independence, when Israel was a poor country with weak agricultural and industrial sectors and a dependence on imported… …
26Economy — Italy has a very anomalous economy. Parts of the country, especially the North, are highly industrialized; the South, by contrast, never fully experienced industrialism and modernization. Italy is a very large economy (the seventh largest in… …
27economy — e|con|o|my1 W1S3 [ıˈkɔnəmi US ıˈka: ] n plural economies [Date: 1400 1500; : French; Origin: Greek oikonomia, from oikonomos manager of a house ] 1.) the system by which a country s money and goods are produced and used, or a country considered… …
28economy — 1 noun 1 (C) the system by which a country s money and goods are produced and used, or a country considered in this way: a capitalist economy | the burgeoning economies of the Pacific rim 2 (U) the careful use of money, time, goods etc so that… …
29economy — n. frugality 1) to practice economy 2) strict economy economic structure 3) a free market; national; peacetime; planned; shaky; sound; wartime economy the science of economies 4) political economy * * * [ɪ kɒnəmɪ] national peacetime planned shaky …
30Economy — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Economy >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 economy economy frugality Sgm: N 1 thrift thrift thriftiness Sgm: N 1 care care husbandry good housewifery savingness retrenchment GRP: N 2 …
