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economy
/ɪˈkɑnəmi/
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Keep the second syllable strongest.
The IPA shows two opening vowels but the same stress pattern. Compare this word with economics, where the main beat comes later in the word.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
TRY SAYING
“Tourism is important to the local economy.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does economy mean?
noun
- The study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.
- Frugal use of resources.
- The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.
More meanings (9)
noun
- The method of divine government of the world. (See Economy (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia )
- The part of a commercial passenger airplane or train reserved for those paying the lower standard fares; economy class.
- (obsolete) The regular operation of nature in the generation, nutrition and preservation of animals or plants.
- (obsolete) System of management; general regulation and disposition of the affairs of a state or nation, or of any department of government.
- (obsolete) A system of rules, regulations, rites and ceremonies.
- (obsolete) The disposition or arrangement of any work.
- (archaic) Management of one’s residency.
adjective
- Cheap to run; using minimal resources; representing good value for money; economical.
adverb
- In or via the part of a commercial passenger airplane reserved for those paying the lower standard fares.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɪˈkɑnəmi/
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See this word in context.
In recent years, however, the impact of fighting an internal war has severely affected the economy and food has to be imported.
He felt no impulse to sell all he had and give to the poor, or to retire into meditative economy and asceticism.
More book examples (3)
How could these men, who never had the faintest idea of statistics, valuation, or political economy, furnish us with principles of legislation?
Concentration of mind, economy of time and energy are studied and learned by the child in the early part of his career.
Incapable ministers, the creatures of court intrigue, squandered in a few years the treasures which Sully's economy and Henry's frugality had amassed.