œconomick

Adjective

economic (comparative more economic, superlative most economic)

1. Pertaining to an economy.
   • Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is...2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847, London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Mar 2023
2. Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value); economical.

   Synonyms:

   penny-pinching, thrifty, bargainous, low-cost, abstemious, canny, chary, moderate, cheap, close with a buck

3. Pertaining to the study of money and its movement.
4. (obsolete) Pertaining to the management of a household
   • And doth employ her Oeconomick Art, and buisy Care, her Houshold to preserve1714 [1599], John Davies, edited by Nahum Tate, The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul, 2nd edition, London: Hammond Banks, page 64

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