word-vault/dist/data/cards/ec/economics.json

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{
    "term": "economics",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the study of how a society organizes its money, trade and industry",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He studied politics and economics at Yale."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Keynesian/Marxist economics"
                },
                {
                    "text": "trends in modern economics"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Money", "Education"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["applied", "theoretical", "classical"],
                "phrases": ["a school of economics"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "the way in which money influences, or is organized within, an area of business or society",
            "cefr": "c1",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The economics of the project are very encouraging."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The economics of maintaining a safe environment are not just the concern of the government."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks//ˌekəˈnɒmɪks/",
                "audio": "ec/economics/economics__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˌiːkəˈnɑːmɪks//ˌekəˈnɑːmɪks/",
                "audio": "ec/economics/economics__us_1_rr.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent. (denoting the science of household management): from economic + the plural suffix -s, originally on the pattern of Greek ta oikonomika (plural), the name of a treatise by Aristotle. Current senses date from the late 18th cent."
}