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Economy comes from Greek roots meaning management of what?

economy

[ih-kon-uh-mee] / ɪˈkɒn ə mi /


ADJECTIVE
costing less to buy, make, or operate
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Premium revenue in the quarter was up 17% while revenue from basic economy increased 16%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

The shark has also been celebrated for its unexpected boost to the local economy, with Busan Mayor Chun Jae-soo thanking it for generating publicity he said would otherwise have cost "trillions".

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

BlackRock Chief Executive Larry Fink doubled down on the importance of building data centers to the health of the U.S. economy, saying not pushing ahead could be inflationary.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

Founder Julie Wainwright took a version of the designer secondhand market online in 2011, around the time that the circular economy movement was going mainstream.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

"More fighting between Communists and the Social Democrats and the Nazis. Each party promises jobs and a stronger economy."

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

The phrase isn’t as well known as “the economies of scale,” but it should be.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 21, 2026

That is more growth than any other member of the G7 group of leading economies over that period.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Most eurozone economies are in better shape than they were in 2010, and are less reliant on foreign funding.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

After all, money management can benefit from economies of scale: Research, software, regulatory, legal, accounting and other costs tend to be fixed and can be spread across a larger base as assets grow.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

It would take place in cities as often as on battlefields, be fueled by ideas as much as by weapons, and engage cultures and economies as much as armies.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell


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