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micro-economy

micro-economy is the alternative form of microeconomy.

Meaning of microeconomy

Noun

microeconomy (plural microeconomies)

  1. A very small economy.
    • Rediker looks not at that bigger picture but at the slave ship itself, as a microeconomy where the captain was chief executive, jailer, accountant, paymaster and disciplinarian, exercising these roles by maintaining, from his spacious captain’s cabin in a very unspacious ship, the mystique of what...2007 October 21, Adam Hochschild, “Voyage of the Damned”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 28 Aug 2017

Forms of micro-economy

pluralmicro-economies

Origin of micro-economy

From micro- + economy.

Questions about micro-economy

What is micro-economy the alternative form of?
Micro-economy is the alternative form of microeconomy.

Words near micro-economy in the dictionary

  1. micro-dosing
  2. micro-drama
  3. micro-dramas
  4. micro-earphone
  5. micro-economies
  6. micro-economy
  7. micro-electro-mechanical
  8. micro-farad
  9. micro-farads
  10. micro-fiction
  11. micro-fictions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: micro-economy (page history and authors); microeconomy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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