| 单词 | economy |
| 释义 | economy (once / 36 pages) 1n 2n The general sense of economy is careful management of resources such as money and materials, so as not to waste them, but the more familiar reference is to a system of producing, distributing, and consuming goods and services. The word economy derives from Greek oikonomos "manager of a household," from oikos "house." The earliest meaning of the adjective economical and the noun economics was also in connection with the management of a household. The earliest mention of a nation's economy was in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, an important work in the history of political economy. WORD FAMILYeconomy: economic, economical, economies, economise, economist, economize+/economic: economically, microeconomic, uneconomic/economical: uneconomical/economise: economised, economiser, economises, economising/economiser: economisers/economist: economists/economize: economized, economizer, economizes, economizing/economizer: economizers/uneconomic: uneconomically USAGE EXAMPLESHe maintains that even the small flow of American ships that visited Subic over the past year pumped roughly $500 million into the local economy. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Official data on Sunday also showed China's manufacturing sector expanded in December, indicating the world's second-largest economy is entering 2017 on solid footing. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) "The relatively wide range for the forecast reflects the higher-than-normal degree of uncertainty regarding the prospects for the UK economy next year," he says. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1 n the system of production and distribution and consumption 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper economic system industrialism an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship free enterprise, laissez-faire economy, market economy, private enterprisean economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to determine prices mixed economyan economic system that combines private and state enterprises non-market economyan economy that is not a market economy state capitalisman economic system that is primarily capitalistic but there is some degree of government ownership of the means of production state socialisman economic system in which the government owns most means of production but some degree of private capitalism is allowed capitalism, capitalist economyan economic system based on private ownership of capital managed economya non-market economy in which government intervention is important in allocating goods and resources and determining prices scheme, system a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole 1n frugality in the expenditure of money or resources the Scots are famous for their economy Syn|Hyper thriftiness frugality, frugalness prudence in avoiding waste 2n the efficient use of resources economy of effort Hyper efficiency skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort 3n an act of economizing; reduction in cost it was a small economy to walk to work every day Syn|Hypo|Hyper saving curtailment, downsizing, retrenchment the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable economy of scalethe saving in cost of production that is due to mass production action something done (usually as opposed to something said) |
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