Noun

• S: (n) economy, economic system (the system of production and distribution and consumption)
• S: (n) economy (the efficient use of resources) "economy of effort"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) efficiency (skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort) "she did the work with great efficiency"
• S: (n) skillfulness (the state of being cognitively skillful)
• S: (n) state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
• S: (n) attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) economy, thriftiness (frugality in the expenditure of money or resources) "the Scots are famous for their economy"
• S: (n) economy, saving (an act of economizing; reduction in cost) "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents"