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== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_114471" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_114471" /> == | ||
<p> (1): | <p> (1): (n.) The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the [[Jewish]] economy. </p> <p> (2): (n.) The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy. </p> <p> (3): (n.) Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony. </p> <p> (4): (n.) [[Orderly]] arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy. </p> | ||
== Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_38331" /> == | == Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature <ref name="term_38331" /> == | ||
