| Economy 1. (n.) The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. 2. (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. 3. (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. 4. (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. Thesaurus Entries GNP, barter economy, brevity, briefness, budget, capitalistic economy, carefulness, cheap, cheeseparing, collectivized economy, compactness, conciseness, concision, conservation, conservatism, consumer economy, control, curtness, discretion, diversified economy, easy, economic, economic system, economy of assumption, economy of means, elegance, farm economy, forehandedness, free-enterprise economy, frugal, frugality, gross national product, handicraft economy, hot economy, husbandry, industrial economy, inexpensive, laissez-faire, law of parsimony, local economy, low, low-priced, manageable, meanness, mercantile economy, miserliness, moderate, modest, national economy, niggardliness, nominal, overheated economy, parsimoniousness, parsimony, paucity, pinching, planned economy, private-enterprise economy, providence, prudence, reasonable, restraint, rural economy, saving, scrimping, sensible, shabby, shoddy, skimping, socialistic economy, sound economy, stinginess, stinting, succinctness, terseness, thrift, thriftiness, token, town economy, unexpensive, urban economy, village economy, war economy, within means, world economy, worth the money |