Economic /(?; 277)/

E·co·nom·ic

Economic

a.
  1. Pertaining to the household; domestic.
  2. Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs.
    And doth employ her economic art And busy care, her household to preserve.
  3. Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.
    Just rich enough, with economic care, To save a pittance.
    — Harte.
  4. Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; using the minimum of time or effort or resources required for effectiveness; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of time; an economic use of home heating oil.
  5. of or pertaining to the national or regional economy; relating to political economy; relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to the production or consumption of goods and services of a nation or region; as, economic growth; economic purposes; economical truths; an economic downturn.
    These matters economical and political.
    — J. C. Shairp.
    There was no economical distress in England to prompt the enterprises of colonization.
    — Palfrey.
    Economic questions, such as money, usury, taxes, lands, and the employment of the people.
    — H. C. Baird.
  6. Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.
  7. of or pertaining to economics.
  8. profitable. Opposite of uneconomic.
  9. avoiding waste; as, an economical meal. Opposite of wasteful.