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Grammar : Noun
Spell : ih-kon-uh-mee
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈkɒn ə mi



Definition of economies

Origin :
  • 1530s, "household management," from Latin oeconomia, from Greek oikonomia "household management, thrift," from oikonomos "manager, steward," from oikos "house" (cognate with Latin vicus "district," vicinus "near;" Old English wic "dwelling, village;" see villa) + nomos "managing," from nemein "manage" (see numismatics). The sense of "wealth and resources of a country" (short for political economy) is from 1650s.
  • noun saving, frugality
Example sentences :
  • Let her practise then some of the economies he had vainly begged of her before.
  • Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
  • Yet what shall I say of the upshot of all his talk of my economies and equivocations and the like?
  • Extract from : « Apologia Pro Vita Sua » by John Henry Cardinal Newman
  • It was all studio blague, and she knew it and offered no defense of her economies.
  • Extract from : « A Daughter of the Middle Border » by Hamlin Garland
  • Polly and I can't begin our economies for several weeks yet.
  • Extract from : « Molly Brown's Orchard Home » by Nell Speed
  • Many of the economies of consolidation were so obvious as to need no argument.
  • Extract from : « The New Nation » by Frederic L. Paxson
  • And some at least, and perhaps the most, of these economies were open to the poorest labourer.
  • Extract from : « Change in the Village » by (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt
  • You will cease from these economies, and you will be discharged.
  • Extract from : « The Letters Of Mark Twain, Volume 5, 1901-1906 » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • One of the economies in cooking is in the proper seasoning of foods.
  • Extract from : « The Khaki Kook Book » by Mary Kennedy Core
  • But, Cousin Matilda, you must be tired of Bettina's economies!
  • Extract from : « A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband » by Louise Bennett Weaver
  • It is not necessary here to examine the policy of these economies.
  • Extract from : « Lord Randolph Churchill » by Winston Spencer Churchill

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