Economy Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭ-kŏnə-mē
A system of producing, distributing, and consuming wealth
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. economic system
  2. market
  3. marketplace
  4. gross national product
  5. gnp
  6. standard of living
  7. cost-of-living
  8. prosperity
  9. consumer price index
  10. per-capita income
  11. financial resources
  12. earnings
Thrifty administration
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. thriftiness
  2. frugality
  3. prudence
  4. thrift
  5. saving
  6. austerity
  7. conservation
  8. providence
  9. retrenchment
  10. husbandry
  11. parsimony
  12. caution
  13. regulation of finances
  14. prudent use of resources
  15. administration
  16. political-economy
  17. economizing
  18. stinginess
  19. discretion
  20. economics
  21. care
  22. macroeconomics
  23. restraint
  24. management
  25. miserliness
  26. scrimping
  27. plan
  28. cheeseparing
  29. plutology
  30. system
Antonyms:
  1. carelessness
  2. spending
  3. lavishness
  4. waste
  5. squandering
An example of economy, sense 2
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. curtailment
  2. retrenchment
  3. cutback
  4. rollback
  5. austerity program
  6. business recession
  7. reduction in spending
  8. deduction
  9. saving
  10. abridgment
  11. layoff
  12. payroll shrinkage
  13. reduction of forces
  14. wage decrease
  15. cut in wages
  16. volume ordering
  17. cost-effectiveness
  18. economies of scale
  19. moratorium
  20. good gas mileage
  21. good fuel consumption
  22. excursion fare
  23. lowered materials cost
  24. lowered contract price; belt-tightening
Antonyms:
  1. increase
  2. outlay
  3. raise

Words Related to Economy

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. automation
  2. save
  3. depression
  4. economic-growth
  5. competitiveness
  6. economic-development
  7. national-economy
  8. capitalism
  9. globalisation
  10. industrialisation
  11. welfare-state
  12. growth
  13. world-economy

Economy Sentence Examples

  • The economy was affected by the establishment of a land tax.

  • We wanted a firm economy, reasonable real estate costs, and a good school system.

  • The Political Economy was published in 1848.

  • When the economy entered recession, the workhouse conditions had to be worsened more.

  • In 1817 a Roman Catholic theological faculty was added, with a seminary called the Konvikt, and there are now also faculties of law, medicine, philosophy, political economy and natural science.

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