economy

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteEffective management of a community or system, or especially its resources. The regular operation of nature in the generation, nutrition and preservation of animals or plants.

   animal economy, vegetable economy

2. 2

   obsoleteEffective management of a community or system, or especially its resources. System of management; general regulation and disposition of the affairs of a state or nation, or of any department of government.

3. 3

   obsoleteEffective management of a community or system, or especially its resources. A system of rules, regulations, rites and ceremonies.

   the Jewish economy

4. 4

   obsoleteEffective management of a community or system, or especially its resources. The disposition or arrangement of any work.

   the economy of a poem

   The place pleased them so much that they spent all their spare time there, scratching and cutting their names on the top of every tower; and at last, having exhausted all other places, finished up with inscribing H.EAST, T.BROWN, on the minute-hand of the great clock; in the doing of which they held the minute-hand, and disturbed the clock's economy.

5. 5

   The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.

6. 6

   Frugal use of resources.

   economy of word

   April 5, 1729, Jonathan Swift, letter to St. John I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease.

   Every possible economy was carefully investigated and unnecessary expense, however small, eliminated. The company had no money to spare on "frills."

7. 7

   The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.

8. 8

   The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia .)

   The economy of God is in Jesus Christ alone.

9. 9

   The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.

10. 10

    archaicManagement of one’s residency.

adjective

1. 1

   Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money; economical.

   He bought an economy car.

   Economy size.

adverb

1. 1

   In or via the part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying the lower standard fares.

   Numerous web sites have tips on how to fly economy.

Forms

plural

economies