externality

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Most people think of money as a macro phenomenon or externality.

From MarketWatch • May 12, 2026

"In economics, we call that externality," she said.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2024

“We create prosperous and exclusive communities, but in so doing also create neighborhoods with concentrated despair — the externality of stockpiled opportunity.”

From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2023

“For a negative externality like climate, carrots are always going to be more expensive than sticks,” says Roberton Williams III, a University of Maryland environmental economist.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2021

Outness, owt′nes, n. state of being out, externality to the perceiving mind, objectiveness.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various