HOW TO PRONOUNCE
economics
/ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks/
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Move the main beat later than in “economy.”
The third syllable carries the primary stress, following a smaller beat at the beginning. The final iks stays lighter than the stressed vowel before m.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 3
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“She studied economics at college.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does economics mean?
noun
- The study of resource and wealth allocation, consumption, and distribution, of capital and investment, and of management of the factors of production.
- Chiefly with a descriptive word: the application of this study to a particular domain.
- The financial situation of a nation, state, etc.
More meanings (4)
noun
- Chiefly followed by of: the financial aspects of an activity, enterprise, etc.
- (dated) Now chiefly home economics: the art or science of household management, especially relating to the appropriate organization of resources; housekeeping.
- (dated) Management of household finances; also, the financial situation of a household.
- (obsolete) plural of economic (“one who is skilled in household management; (Christianity, historical) one who manages the income of a vacant benefice”).
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IPA pronunciation
/ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks/
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The deterioration of our population in large towns is one of the most undisputed facts of social economics.
To meet the new situation created by the industrial revolution arose the new science of "political economy," or economics.
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What falls within the range of economics falls below the proper level of solicitude of the priesthood in its best estate.
And the writer once having picked up the trail followed it with certainty, and indeed almost inevitably, as it led from ecology to anthropology and economics.