Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Designed or functioning to make effective use of money or effort invested.
- adjective Prudent and thrifty in management; not wasteful or extravagant. synonym: sparing.
- adjective Sparing in the amount of items involved to achieve a desired result.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
economic .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Careful with money so as not to spend too much;
prudent ;thrifty . - adjective Relating to
economy in any other sense.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth
- adjective using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness
- adjective avoiding waste
Etymologies
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Examples
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That being said, hotels doors in economical hotels usually leave something to be desired in security.
Safety in Hotels 2009
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That being said, hotels doors in economical hotels usually leave something to be desired in security.
Safety in Hotels 2009
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Customers identify and validate the requirements to be addressed and evaluate the contractor's performance, and ensure that the contract is used in economical and efficient ways.
David Isenberg: This Waste Really Hurts David Isenberg 2010
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That being said, hotels doors in economical hotels usually leave something to be desired in security.
Safety in Hotels 2009
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Customers identify and validate the requirements to be addressed and evaluate the contractor's performance, and ensure that the contract is used in economical and efficient ways.
David Isenberg: This Waste Really Hurts David Isenberg 2010
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Customers identify and validate the requirements to be addressed and evaluate the contractor's performance, and ensure that the contract is used in economical and efficient ways.
David Isenberg: This Waste Really Hurts David Isenberg 2010
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Customers identify and validate the requirements to be addressed and evaluate the contractor's performance, and ensure that the contract is used in economical and efficient ways.
David Isenberg: This Waste Really Hurts David Isenberg 2010
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That being said, hotels doors in economical hotels usually leave something to be desired in security.
Safety in Hotels 2009
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Customers identify and validate the requirements to be addressed and evaluate the contractor's performance, and ensure that the contract is used in economical and efficient ways.
David Isenberg: This Waste Really Hurts David Isenberg 2010
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That being said, hotels doors in economical hotels usually leave something to be desired in security.
Safety in Hotels 2009
seanahan commented on the word economical
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard Feynman
November 2, 2007
kewpid commented on the word economical
That's something to think about!
There's an estimated 1080 atoms, so there is a physical limit to the amount of information that can exist – in this universe at least.
November 2, 2007
uselessness commented on the word economical
That is very depressing, seanahan. When the deficit is worded that way it sounds very big, indeed.
November 3, 2007
john commented on the word economical
Depressing indeed--and that's just the annual deficit Feynman was talking about. Our actual debt is on the order of $9 *trillion* dollars.
November 3, 2007
kewpid commented on the word economical
As a proportion of the total economy it is not that big, though it's certainly been on the ascendancy over the past 30 years.
November 3, 2007