using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness; " an economic use of home heating oil"; " a modern economical heating system"; " an economical use of her time"

financially rewarding; " it was no longer economic to keep the factory open"; " have to keep prices high enough to make it economic to continue the service"

Alt. of Economical

Frugal; pertaining to the science of economics.

Pertaining to, managing with, or regulated by, economy; frugal; relating to economics.

Pert. to household matters; frugal; careful; thrifty.

According to Mr. Eyre's cable to the " New York World" of February 21, 1920, Lenine said, speaking in English: " Russia's present economic distress is simply a part of the world's economic distress. – The Red Conspiracy by Joseph J. Mereto

For the problems which America faces to- day are economic and national. – The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnagey (AKA Dale Carnegie) and J. Berg Esenwein

And what applies to individuals applies also to nations; under the existing economic system, a nation's interest is seldom the same as that of the world at large, and then only by accident. – The Problem of China by Bertrand Russell

It can be said that between the grey past of territorial depression and the grey future of economic routine the strange clouds lifted, and we beheld the land of the living. – Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens by G. K. Chesterton

This would have meant great progress in invention and science- or in some fields of science, the economic for instance. – This Simian World by Clarence Day Jr.

In the great majority of cases this results in serious economic loss both to the boy or girl and to the community. – Community Civics and Rural Life by Arthur W. Dunn

Wherever the two have met in economic competition, John has won hands down. – The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard

It will be economic revolution. – The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays by Various

For economic analysis of the modern type one naturally looks in vain; moral analysis of social relations has, however, rarely been carried farther. – John Woolman's Journal by John Woolman Commentator: Vida Scudder

In the '80's there were hundreds of thousands of people in the world who understood that the trust was a natural economic growth. – A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann

Complications ensued; but they were economic, not romantic. – Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

It will be seen at once that the question is at bottom an economic one. – Humanly Speaking by Samuel McChord Crothers

What an extraordinary episode in the economic progress of man that age was which came to an end in August, 1914! – The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

The first is that the economic condition of Germany is far worse than she has allowed us to know. – The Devil's Paw by E. Phillips Oppenheim

For it is now generally admitted that war is nothing but economic competition in its acutest form. – The Emancipation of Massachusetts by Brooks Adams

One of the largest graziers in Ireland recently gave me a picture of what he considered to be an ideal economic state for the country. – Ireland In The New Century by Horace Plunkett

Unless he is exceptionally intelligent he does not understand that this simple rule is complicated by modern economic conditions, and by the enormous number of women thrown on their own resources. – Home Life in Germany by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

Such examples could be given without end, but there is another example of sufficient vital importance to be given here, as it has to do with our conception of the social and economic system, and the state. – Manhood of Humanity. by Alfred Korzybski

There is no denying that the economic system of the Hans was marvelous. – The Airlords of Han by Philip Francis Nowlan