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economy
noun
1 the nation's economy:
wealth, (financial) resources;
financial system, financial state, financial management.
2 Mrs Beeton attempted to combine good living with economy:
thrift, providence, prudence, thriftiness, canniness, carefulness, care, good management, good husbandry, careful budgeting, economizing, saving, scrimping and saving, scrimping, restraint, frugality, fuel-saving, abstemiousness;
meanness, penny-pinching, miserliness, niggardliness, parsimony;
North American forehandedness;
informal stinginess;
rare sparingness, frugalness.
antonyms extravagance.
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