economy
economy is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
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- noun. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. 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.
- noun. an act of economizing; reduction in cost
"it was a small economy to walk to work every day"
"there was a saving of 50 cents"
- noun. frugality in the expenditure of money or resources
"the Scots are famous for their economy"
- noun. the efficient use of resources
"economy of effort"
- noun. the system of production and distribution and consumption
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