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From economy , from Latin oeconomia , from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία ( oikonomía , “ management of a household, administration ” ) , from οἶκος ( oîkos , “ house ” ) + νέμω ( némō , “ distribute, allocate ” ) .
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economics (uncountable )
( 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.
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study
Afrikaans: ekonomie
Albanian: ekonomia f
Arabic: اِقْتِصَاد (ar) m ( iqtiṣād ) , عِلْم اَلاِقْتِصَاد 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) ( ôrthôniti )
Breton: armerzh
Bulgarian: иконо́мика (bg) f ( ikonómika )
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
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 ( aburi )
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economics
masculine plural of economich