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{
"term": "economic",
"partOfSpeech": "adjective",
"academic": true,
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "connected with the trade, industry and development of wealth of a country, an area or a society",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "They discussed social, economic and political issues."
},
{
"text": "**economic growth/development**"
},
{
"text": "the worst **economic crisis** since the war"
},
{
"text": "There will be no quick **economic recovery**."
},
{
"text": "the government’s **economic policy**"
},
{
"text": "economic activity/cooperation/reform"
},
{
"text": "an economic downturn/slowdown"
},
{
"text": "A public spending programme is out of the question in the current economic climate."
},
{
"text": "Economic growth was fastest in Japan."
},
{
"text": "She's a lecturer in economic history."
},
{
"text": "The government's economic policy has been broadly successful."
},
{
"text": "This book deals with the social, economic and environmental questions of the period."
},
{
"text": "They discussed competitiveness in global economic markets."
},
{
"text": "The current economic downturn has affected the city's art scene."
},
{
"text": "The welfare state is inefficient in purely economic terms."
}
],
"topics": ["Money"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "producing enough profit to continue",
"sensetop": "it is economic to do somethingit is economic for somebody/something to do something",
"cefr": "b2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "The college was not achieving the numbers of students needed to make it economic."
},
{
"text": "They found it was not economic to sell their milk to the supermarkets.",
"contextForm": "it is economic to do something"
},
{
"text": "It's simply not economic for these small farmers to start buying large amounts of expensive fertilizer.",
"contextForm": "it is economic for somebody/something to do something"
},
{
"text": "The business was getting to the stage where it wasn't economic any longer."
},
{
"text": "Small local shops stop being economic when a supermarket opens up nearby."
},
{
"text": "These investment projects will become economic in a few years."
}
],
"synonyms": "profitable"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪk//ˌekəˈnɒmɪk/",
"audio": "ec/economic/economic__gb_4.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˌiːkəˈnɑːmɪk//ˌekəˈnɑːmɪk/",
"audio": "ec/economic/economic__us_2_rr.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "late Middle English: via Old French and Latin from Greek oikonomikos, from oikonomia ‘household management’, based on oikos ‘house’ + nemein ‘manage’. Originally a noun, the word denoted household management or a person skilled in this, hence the early sense of the adjective (late 16th cent.) ‘relating to household management’. Modern senses date from the mid 19th cent."
}