economics

See also: econòmics

English

Alternative forms

• œconomics (archaic)

Etymology

From economy +‎ -ics, from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “the management of a household”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌikəˈnɑmɪks/, /ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks/, /ˌɛkəˈnɒmɪks/

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Noun

economics (uncountable)

1. (social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.

   Synonyms: dismal science; see also Thesaurus:economics

   Mary studied economics for 5 years before going into banking.

   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.

Holonyms

• social science

Derived terms

• agroeconomics
• applied economics
• behavioral economics
• Buddhist economics
• business economics
• clinicoeconomics
• counter-economics
• demand-side economics
• financial economics
• home economics
• mathematical economics
• -nomics
• normative economics
• participatory economics
• positive economics
• regional economics
• supply-side economics
• trickle-down economics
• voodoo economics

 

Related terms

• economy

Translations

study

• Afrikaans: ekonomie (af)
• Albanian: ekonomi (sq) f
• Arabic: اِقْتِصَاد (ar) m (iqtiṣād), عِلْم الاِقْتِصَاد (ar) m (ʕilm al-iqtiṣād)
• Aragonese: economía f
• Armenian: տնտեսագիտություն (hy) (tntesagitutʻyun)
• Asturian: economía f
• Azerbaijani: iqtisad, iqtisadiyyat (az)
• Bambara: nafasorosira
• Banjarese: ikunumi
• Basque: ekonomia
• Belarusian: экано́міка f (ekanómika)
• Bengali: অর্থনীতি (bn) (orthoniti)
• Breton: armerzh
• Bulgarian: иконо́мика (bg) f (ikonómika)
• Burmese: ဘောဂဗေဒ (my) (bhau:ga.beda.)
• Catalan: economia (ca) f
• Cebuano: ekonomiks
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 經濟學／经济学 (ging¹ zai³ hok⁶)

  Hakka: 經濟學／经济学 (kîn-chi-ho̍k)

  Hokkien: 經濟學／经济学 (keng-chè-ha̍k)

  Mandarin: 經濟學／经济学 (zh) (jīngjìxué)

• Chuvash: экономика (ek̬onomik̬a)
• Cornish: erbysieth f
• Czech: ekonomie (cs) f
• Danish: økonomi (da)
• Dutch: economie (nl) f
• Esperanto: ekonomiko
• Estonian: majandusteadus
• Faroese: búskapur m
• Finnish: taloustiede (fi), ekonomia (fi), kansantaloustiede (fi)
• French: économie (fr) f
• Friulian: economie f
• Galician: economía (gl) f
• Georgian: ეკონომიკა (eḳonomiḳa)
• German: Ökonomie (de) f, Wirtschaftswissenschaft (de) f
• Greek: οικονομικά (el) n pl (oikonomiká)
• Gujarati: અર્થશાસ્ત્ર (arthaśāstra)
• Hebrew: כַּלְכָּלָה (he) f (kalkalá)
• Hiligaynon: piniliay
• Hindi: अर्थशास्त्र (hi) m (arthaśāstra), अर्थनीति f (arthanīti)
• Hungarian: közgazdaságtan (hu)
• Icelandic: hagfræði (is)
• Ido: ekonomiko (io)
• Indonesian: ilmu ekonomi (id), ekonomi (id)
• Interlingua: economia (ia)
• Irish: eacnamaíocht f
• Italian: economia (it) f
• Japanese: 経済学 (ja) (けいざいがく, keizaigaku)
• Javanese: ekonomi
• Kannada: ಅರ್ಥಶಾಸ್ತ್ರ (kn) (arthaśāstra)
• Kashubian: ekònomijô
• Kazakh: ықтисат (yqtisat), экономика (ékonomika)
• Khmer: សេដ្ឋសាស្ត្រ (seetthaʼsaah), សេដ្ឋកិច្ចវិទ្យា (seetthɑɑkəccɑɑvɨtyiə)
• Korean: 경제학(經濟學) (ko) (gyeongjehak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ئابووری (ckb) (abûrî)

  Northern Kurdish: aborînasî (ku), aborî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: экономика (ky) (ekonomika)
• Ladino: ekonomiya f
• Lao: ເສດຖະສາດ (lo) (sēt tha sāt)
• Latin: oeconomia (la) f
• Latvian: ekonomika (lv) f
• Limburgish: Economie
• Lithuanian: ekonomika (lt)
• Luxembourgish: Economie
• Macedonian: економија (mk) f (ekonomija)
• Malagasy: toe-karena (mg)
• Malay: ekonomi (ms)
• Malayalam: സാമ്പത്തികശാസ്ത്രം (sāmpattikaśāstraṁ)
• Maori: ahupūtea, matai ōhanga
• Marathi: अर्थशास्त्र (mr) (arthaśāstra)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: эдийн засаг (ediin zasag)

  Mongolian: ᠡᠳ᠋ ᠦᠨ
  ᠵᠠᠰᠠᠭ (ed-ün ǰasag)

• Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⴰⴷⵎⵙⴰ f (tadmsa)
• Navajo: naʼiiniʼ naalkaah
• Nepali: अर्थशास्त्र (ne) (arthasāstra)
• Norman: êcononmie
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: økonomi (no) m

• Occitan: economia (oc) f
• Pashto: اقتصاد (ps) m (eqtesād)
• Persian: اِقتِصاد (fa) (eqtesâd), اِقتِصادِیّات (fa) (eqtesâdiyyat)
• Polish: ekonomia (pl) f, ekonomika (pl) f
• Portuguese: economia (pt) f
• Romanian: economie (ro), știința economiei f
• Russian: эконо́мика (ru) f (ekonómika)
• Sanskrit: अर्थशास्त्र (sa) (arthaśāstra)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: еконо̀мија f

  Roman: ekonòmija (sh) f

• Sicilian: econumìa (scn) f
• Slovak: ekonómia f
• Slovene: ekonomija (sl) f
• Somali: dhaqaale (so)
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: ekonomija f

• Spanish: economía (es) f
• Swahili: uchumi (sw)
• Swedish: ekonomi (sv) c
• Tagalog: ekonomika (tl) f, agimatan
• Tajik: иқтисод (iqtisod), иқтисодиёт (iqtisodiyot)
• Tamil: பொருளியல் (ta) (poruḷiyal)
• Tatar: икътисад (iqtisad)
• Telugu: ఆర్థిక శాస్త్రము (ārthika śāstramu)
• Thai: เศรษฐศาสตร์ (th) (sèet-tà-sàat)
• Turkish: ekonomi (tr), iktisat (tr)
• Turkmen: ykdysadyýet
• Ukrainian: еконо́міка (uk) f (ekonómika)
• Urdu: مَعاشِیات f pl (ma'āśiyāt), اِقْتِصادِیات f pl (iqtisādiyāt)
• Uyghur: ئىقتىسادشۇناسلىق (iqtisadshunasliq)
• Uzbek: iqtisodiyot (uz), iqtisod (uz)
• Vietnamese: kinh tế học (vi) (經濟學)
• Volapük: konömav (vo)
• Welsh: economeg (cy)
• West Frisian: ekonomy
• Wolof: koom-koom (wo)
• Yiddish: עקאָנאָמיק f (ekonomik)

Anagrams

• neocosmic

Ladin

Adjective

economics

1. masculine plural of economich

Occitan

Adjective

economics

1. masculine plural of economic