economy
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Sense: Modifier: inexpensive
Synonyms:
budget Collocations, affordable Collocations, reasonably priced, inexpensive, cheap Collocations, money-saving, dime-store , pound-shop , cost-effective, as cheap as chips , dirt-cheap , bargain Collocations, discount Collocations, cheap and cheerful , economy-size
Sense: Noun: wealth-producing system
Synonyms:
economic system, marketplace, market Collocations, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product, gross national product, CPI, consumer price index, financial markets, financial resources, finances
Sense: Noun: frugality
Synonyms:
frugality, thriftiness, thrift Collocations, economizing, economising , scrimping and saving, scrimping, saving, saving money, penny-pinching , prudent use of resources, regulation of finances, retrenchment, austerity, husbandry, providence, parsimony, stinginess
Antonyms:
carelessness, lavishness, wastefulness, extravagance, exorbitance, enlargement, expansion Collocations, increase Collocations, raise Collocations, abundance, opulence
Sense: Noun: example of economy
Synonyms:
curtailment, retrenchment, cutback, austerity program, austerity programme , austerity, reduction in spending, layoff, payroll shrinkage, reduction of forces, wage decrease, cut in wages, moratorium, lowered materials cost, lowered contract price, belt-tightening
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