Synonyms for economy
ɪˈkɒn ə miecon·o·my

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1. economy

   Economy is a wise and careful administration of the means at one's disposal; frugality is a withholding of expenditure, or sparing of supplies or provision, to a noticeable and often to a painful degree; parsimony is excessive and unreasonable saving for the sake of saving. Frugality exalted into a virtue to be practised for its own sake, instead of as a means to an end, becomes the vice of parsimony. Miserliness is the denying oneself and others the ordinary comforts or even necessaries of life, for the mere sake of hoarding money. Prudence and providence look far ahead, and sacrifice the present to the future, saving as much as may be necessary for that end. (See PRUDENCE.) Thrift seeks not merely to save, but to earn. Economy manages, frugality saves, providence plans, thrift at once earns and saves, with a view to wholesome and profitable expenditure at a fitting time. See ABSTINENCE.

   Synonyms:
   frugality, miserliness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, providence, prudence, saving, scrimping, sparing, thrift

   Antonyms:
   abundance, affluence, bounty, extravagance, liberality, luxury, opulence, riches, waste, wealth

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1. economy

   Synonyms:
   administration, dispensation, management, rule, arrangement, distribution, husbanding

   Antonyms:
   maladministration, waste, misrule, mismanagement, disorder, prodigality

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1. economy, economic systemnoun

   the system of production and distribution and consumption

   Synonyms:
   thriftiness, economic system, saving

2. economynoun

   the efficient use of resources

   "economy of effort"

   Synonyms:
   thriftiness, economic system, saving

3. economy, thriftinessnoun

   frugality in the expenditure of money or resources

   "the Scots are famous for their economy"

   Synonyms:
   thriftiness, economic system, saving

4. economy, savingnoun

   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"

   Synonyms:
   thriftiness, delivery, preservation, deliverance, economic system, rescue, saving

Matched Categories

1. • Efficiency
   • Frugality

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1. economynoun

   Synonyms:
   frugality, thrift, thriftiness, good husbandry, good housewifery

2. economynoun

   Synonyms:
   arrangement, regulation, management

3. economynoun

   Synonyms:
   system, plan, established order

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1. economynoun

   Synonyms:
   thrift, frugality, thriftiness, retrenchment, management, administration, system

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1. List of paraphrases for "economy":

   economic, economics, economies, wirtschaft, 'économie, économie, economía, 'economia, saving, savings, gospodarki, οικονομίας

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1. Jeggan Grey-Johnson:

   Gambia cannot absorb this sort of shock, the economy is small and already in freefall.

2. Kristi Noem:

   We're going to keep taxes low, keep regulations low, give them opportunities to be successful and to partner where appropriate, for me, it is just telling the story of South Dakota … We have the No. 1 economy in the country. We're growing, our people are thriving, they're happier, and it's because we've been following conservative principles.

3. Anton Siluanov:

   We're losing around $40 billion a year because of geopolitical sanctions, and about $90 billion to $100 billion from oil prices falling by 30 percent, the main issue that affects the budget and economy and financial system: this is the price of oil and the fall in monetary flows from the sale of energy resources.

4. Jim Jordan:

   Big Tech is out to get conservatives. But rather than address Republican concerns of bias and censorship on the internet, Democrats spent the last two days pushing radical antitrust legislation that will systematically change the United States economy as we know it.

5. Alberto Carvalho:

   The federal government can't order schools to do A, B or C, certainly, the President is seeking the maximum reopening we can get not just of schools, but of the economy.