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, economy, 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, economy, 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:
   economy, 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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How to use Economy in a sentence?

1. Takashi Tsukahara:

   The economy's in a bad state, but Boroichi's special, people get themselves something good to feel better.

2. Richard Prisinzano:

   They have a lot of spending, but they are spending it on things that will actually help people in the long run -- education, health care, infrastructure, the types of spending they did make workers more productive and lead to growth in the economy in the out years.

3. Greg McKenna:

   If you recall what happened when the CFO of Caterpillar said last earnings season that Q1 was likely to be the high water mark. All we need is somebody with serious exposure to the global economy to do something similar and we're talking about the downside again for stocks, not the upside.

4. Chrystia Freeland:

   These illegal barricades are doing great damage to Canada's economy and to our reputation as a reliable trading partner.

5. Mark Nevins:

   The Trump administration's definition of a 'strong economy' is essentially based on the stock market, the people who benefit from that are more like Donald Trump than a worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania.