economics

1. 1.

   the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management

   Synonymseconomic sciencepolitical economy

   Broadersocial science

   Narrowereconometricsfinancemacroeconomicsmicroeconomicssupply-side economics

   Partseconomic theoryrent seeking

Other forms of economics

plural

economics(unchanged)

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about economics

What does economics mean?

economics means "the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management".

How many syllables are in economics?

economics has 4 syllables: ec-o-no-mics. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks/.

What is another word for economics?

Close synonyms include economic science, political economy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is economics a common word?

economics is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with economics?

3 words rhyme with economics. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.