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ECONOMIC
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness
Example:
an economical use of her time
Synonyms:
economic; economical
Classified under:
Similar:
efficient (being effective without wasting time or effort or expense)
Derivation:
economy (the efficient use of resources)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Financially rewarding
Example:
have to keep prices high enough to make it economic to continue the service
Classified under:
Similar:
profitable (yielding material gain or profit)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money)
Example:
in economic terms they are very privileged
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
secular; temporal; worldly (characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world)
Derivation:
economy (an act of economizing; reduction in cost)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or relating to the science of economics
Example:
economic theory
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
economics (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)
Derivation:
economy (the system of production and distribution and consumption)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth
Example:
aspects of social, political, and economical life
Synonyms:
economic; economical
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
economy (the system of production and distribution and consumption)
Derivation:
economy (the system of production and distribution and consumption)
Context examples:
Such persons are sensitive to socio-economic factors within the community and provide a variety of services.
(Patient Navigator, NCI Thesaurus)
A study that assesses the value associated with a given drug in therapeutic and economic terms.
(Pharmacoeconomic Study, NCI Thesaurus)
And while the Maya people survived beyond this period, their political and economic power was depleted.
(Scientists measure severity of drought during the Maya collapse, University of Cambridge)
It had major environmental and economic effects.
(Oil Spills, NIH)
That would significantly affect the economic resources supplied by the lake and the livelihoods of approximately 40 million people living in the Lake Victoria Basin.
(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)
They inventoried the required resources, then determined the economic and environmental effects of using those resources — defined in terms of energy available and expended, and normalized to cost in U.S. dollars.
(Corn better used as food than biofuel, National Science Foundation)
The recognition that low neighborhood socioeconomic conditions have an impact on the services and opportunities available to its residents and have a wide and long-lasting effect on their economic, social and educational development.
(Concentrated Disadvantage, NCI Thesaurus)
These maps display cancer mortality data by county and state economic regions across the country.
(Mortality Map, NCI Thesaurus)
"Hail - particularly large hail - can have significant economic impacts on agriculture and property," said Nick Anderson, a program officer in NSF's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences.
(Facial recognition technique could improve hail forecasts, National Science Foundation)
The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services.
(Health Services Research, NCI Thesaurus)
