economy

1. Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.Examples: "animal economy, vegetable economy"countableobsoleteuncountable

2. Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.countableobsoleteuncountable

3. Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.Examples: "the Jewish economy"countableobsoleteuncountable

4. Effective management of a community or system, or especially its resources.Examples: "the economy of a poem"; "The place pleased them so much that they spent all their spare time there, scratching and cutting their names on the top of every tower; and at last, having exhausted all other places, finished up with inscribing H.EAST, T.BROWN, on the minute-hand of the great clock; in the doing of which they held the minute-hand, and disturbed the clock's economy."countableobsoleteuncountable

5. (theology) The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.)Examples: "The economy of God is in Jesus Christ alone."countableuncountable

6. (US) The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.UScountableuncountable