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  • English Word Economical Definition Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.
  • English Word Economically Definition With economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure.
  • English Word Economics Definition The science of household affairs, or of domestic management.
  • English Word Economics Definition Political economy; the science of the utilities or the useful application of wealth or material resources. See Political economy, under Political.
  • English Word Economies Definition of Economy
  • English Word Economist Definition One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
  • English Word Economist Definition One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.
  • English Word Economization Definition The act or practice of using to the best effect.
  • English Word Economize Definition To manage with economy; to use with prudence; to expend with frugality; as, to economize one's income.
  • English Word Economize Definition To be prudently sparing in expenditure; to be frugal and saving; as, to economize in order to grow rich.
  • English Word Economized Definition of Economize
  • English Word Economizer Definition One who, or that which, economizes.
  • English Word Economizer Definition Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.
  • English Word Economizing Definition of Economize
  • English Word Economy Definition The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.
  • English Word Economy Definition Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.
  • English Word Economy Definition The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.
  • English Word Economy Definition Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony.
  • English Word Ecorche Definition A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.
  • English Word Ecossaise Definition A dancing tune in the Scotch style.
  • English Word Ecostate Definition Having no ribs or nerves; -- said of a leaf.
  • English Word Ecoute Definition One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.
  • English Word Ecphasis Definition An explicit declaration.
  • English Word Ecphonema Definition A breaking out with some interjectional particle.
  • English Word Ecphoneme Definition A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation.
  • English Word Ecphonesis Definition An animated or passionate exclamation.
  • English Word Ecphractic Definition Serving to dissolve or attenuate viscid matter, and so to remove obstructions; deobstruent.
  • English Word Ecphractic Definition An ecphractic medicine.
  • English Word Ecrasement Definition The operation performed with an ecraseur.
  • English Word Ecraseur Definition An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows.