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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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This constant threat has fuelled massive internal displacement and severe labour shortages in an already flailing economy, and sent people fleeing to neighbouring countries.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Meanwhile France, the second-biggest European economy and a net contributor to the budget, argues the continent needs sufficient means to match the rising challenges the 27-country bloc faces.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

“Frustration over cost-of-living continues to mount, as consumers across the political spectrum believe that the trajectory of the economy has weakened since the beginning of the year,” said Joanne Hsu, the survey’s director.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

Brett Baker, a lawyer for the Central Delta Water Agency, said the lawsuit focuses on curbing the “degradation of the ecosystem, the community, the economy in the Delta.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

“The economy will get better. It always does. We just have to wait it out. The invisible hand of the market always moves to make things right.”

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson

Sramek casts the standoff as a fight against forces that have priced people out of housing and stalled local economies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Those forces are testing the resilience economies have shown through a series of crises, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

This limits the economies of scale and standardisation, though flexible manufacturing could help somewhat.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Three decades after predicting the Asian crisis of 1997, one strategist pinpoints similarities between the financial contagion that spread across Asian economies then and the current AI investment boom that he thinks is a bubble.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

It remained confined to Ethiopia until it caught on in Arabia and then around the world, to sustain today the economies of countries as far-flung as Brazil and Papua New Guinea.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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