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economy

/ih-kon-uh-mee/US // ɪˈkɒn ə mi //UK // (ɪˈkɒnəmɪ) //

经济,节约,经济性,经济效益

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    plural e·con·o·mies.

    • : thrifty management; frugality in the expenditure or consumption of money, materials, etc.
    • : an act or means of thrifty saving; a saving: He achieved a small economy by walking to work instead of taking a bus.
    • : the management of the resources of a community, country, etc., especially with a view to its productivity.
    • : the prosperity or earnings of a place: Further inflation would endanger the national economy seriously.
    • : the disposition or regulation of the parts or functions of any organic whole; an organized system or method.
    • : the efficient, sparing, or concise use of something: an economy of effort; an economy of movement.
    • : economy class.
    • : Theology. the divine plan for humanity, from creation through redemption to final beatitude.the method of divine administration, as at a particular time or for a particular race.
    • : Obsolete. the management of household affairs.
adj.形容词 adjective
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    • : intended to save money: to reduce the staff in an economy move.
    • : costing less to make, buy, or operate: an economy car.
    • : of or relating to economy class: the economy fare to San Francisco.
adv.副词 adverb
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    • : in economy-class accommodations, or by economy-class conveyance: to travel economy.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounsaving, frugality
Forms: economies

Examples

  • “I think whether it’s the economy or the coronavirus, former vice president Biden, he’s proven he wants to root against American prosperity for his own political gain,” Wenstrup said.

  • The latest spot from the president's campaign hands the microphone to a woman, never named, who says confidently that Joe Biden could “never handle the economy after covid.”

  • Then we started to see a slow growth of travel in different areas of the economy.

  • When girls go to school, economies grow and public health improves.

  • It’s a mistake that recalls the firm’s approach in January last year, when Fed Chairman Jay Powell signaled he’d do whatever it took to keep the economy growing.

  • Unlike the Soviet Union at a certain period in history, the Russian economy does not hold a candle to that of the United States.

  • Nothing in it was meant to change the basic operations of the capitalist economy or to intervene aggressively in class relations.

  • The economy has begun to add jobs, but the quality of those jobs is an increasing concern.

  • Sometimes a column has the economy and rhythm of a short story.

  • The rapid rise of the sharing economy is changing the way people around the world commute, shop, vacation, and borrow.

  • He wrote on law, medical jurisprudence and political economy, and translated Justinian and Broussais.

  • I have been admonished and instructed by the systematic economy which is practiced even in great houses.

  • Economy with the good old soul was a cardinal virtue, waste a deadly sin.

  • He published several volumes on political economy, and was much interested in statistics.

  • The economy of heat in smelting furnaces and in the arated steam-engine were bold means to large results.