1. Adjective
Pertaining to the household; domestic.
2. Adjective
Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs.
3. Adjective
Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.
4. Adjective
Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of time.
5. Adjective
Relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to political economy; as, economic purposes; economical truths.
6. Adjective
Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.
7. Adjective
of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth; "economic growth"; "aspects of social, political, and economical life"
Vocabulary classified under Economics
8. Adjective
using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness; "an economic use of home heating oil"; "a modern economical heating system"; "an economical use of her time"
Vocabulary classified under Geography
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