economics

See also: econòmics

English

Alternative forms

• œconomics (archaic)

Etymology

From economy, from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + νέμω (némō, “distribute, allocate”).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ikəˈnɑmɪks/, /ɛkəˈnɑmɪks/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ikəˈnɒmɪks/, /ɛkəˈnɒmɪks/

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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.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• dismal science
• See also Thesaurus:economics

Derived terms

• -nomics

Related terms

• economy

Translations

study

• Afrikaans: ekonomie (af)
• Albanian: ekonomia f
• Arabic: اِقْتِصَاد‎ (ar) m (iqtiṣād), عِلْم اَلاِقْتِصَاد‎ (ar) m (ʿilm al-iqtiṣād)
• Aragonese: economía f
• Armenian: տնտեսագիտություն (hy) (tntesagitutʿyun)
• Asturian: economía f
• Azerbaijani: iqtisad
• Bambara: nafasorosira
• Banjarese: ikunumi
• Basque: ekonomia
• Belarusian: экано́міка f (ekanómika)
• Bengali: অর্থনীতি (bn) (ôrthnīti)
• 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)

  Mandarin: 經濟學 (zh), 经济学 (zh) (jīngjìxué)

  Min Nan: 經濟學, 经济学 (keng^-chè^-ha̍k)

• Chuvash: экономика (ekonomika)
• Czech: ekonomie (cs) f
• Danish: økonomi (da)
• Dutch: economie (nl) f
• Esperanto: ekonomiko
• Estonian: majandusteadus
• Faroese: búskapur m
• Finnish: taloustiede (fi), ekonomia, 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: כלכלה‎ (he) f (kalkalá)
• Hiligaynon: piniliay
• Hindi: अर्थशास्त्र (hi) m (arthaśāstra)
• Hungarian: közgazdaságtan (hu)
• Icelandic: hagfræði (is)
• Ido: ekonomiko (io)
• Indonesian: ilmu ekonomi (id)
• Interlingua: economia
• Irish: eacnamaíocht f
• Italian: economia (it) f
• Japanese: 経済学 (ja) (けいざいがく, keizaigaku)
• Javanese: ekonomi
• Kashubian: ekònomijô
• Kazakh: ықтисат (ıqtïsat), экономика (ékonomïka)
• Khmer: សេដ្ឋសាស្ត្រ (seetʰa’ saah), សេដ្ឋវិទ្យា (seetʰa’ vityie)
• Korean: 경제학 (ko) (gyeongjehak) (經濟學 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: ئابووری‎ (ku) (abûrî)

• 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)
• Lower Sorbian: ekonomija f
• Luxembourgish: Economie
• Macedonian: економија (mk) f (ekonomija)
• Malagasy: toe-karena (mg)
• Malay: ekonomi
• Marathi: अर्थशास्त्र (mr) (arthaśāstra)
• Moroccan Amazigh: ⵜⴰⴷⵎⵙⴰ f (tadmsa)
• Navajo: naʼiiniʼ naalkaah
• Norman: êcononmie
• Norwegian: økonomi (no)
• Occitan: economia f
• Pashto: اقتصاد‎ (ps)
• Persian: اقتصاد‎ (fa) (eqtesâd)
• 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: економија f

  Roman: ekonomija (sh) f

• Sicilian: econumìa (scn) f
• Slovak: ekonómia f
• Slovene: ekonomija (sl) f
• Somali: dhaqaale
• Spanish: economía (es) f
• Swahili: uchumi (sw)
• Swedish: ekonomi (sv)
• Tagalog: ekonomika (tl) f, agimatan
• Tajik: иқтисод (iqtisod)
• Tamil: பொருளியல் (ta) (poruḷiyal)
• Tatar: иктисат (iktisat)
• Telugu: ఆర్థిక శాస్త్రము (ārthika śāstramu)
• Thai: เศรษฐศาสตร์ (th) (sèet-tà-sàat)
• Turkish: iktisat (tr)
• Ukrainian: еконо́міка (uk) f (ekonómika)
• Urdu: معاشیات‎ f
• Uyghur: ئىقتىسادشۇناسلىق‎ (iqtisadshunasliq)
• Uzbek: iqtisodiyot (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

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Ladin

Adjective

economics

1. masculine plural of economich

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Occitan

Adjective

economics

1. masculine plural of economic