economic

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economic (adj.): 1590s, "pertaining to management of a household," perhaps shortened from economical, or else from French économique or directly from Latin oeconomicus "of domestic economy," from Greek oikonomikos "practiced in the management of a household or family" (also the name of a treatise by Xenophon on the duties of domestic life), hence, "frugal, thrifty," from oikonomia "household management" (see economy (n.)). Meaning "relating to the science of economics" is from 1835 and now is the main sense, economical retaining the older one of "characterized by thrift."

1. The United States plans to tighten the economic sanctions currently in place.: 美國計劃加大現有經濟制裁的力度。

2. President Castro has warned Cubans to prepare for a profound economic emergency.: 卡斯特羅主席已經提醒古巴人民為嚴重的經濟危急狀況做準備。

3. The country's economic plight is strangling its scientific institutions.: 該國的經濟困境阻礙了其科研機構的工作進展。

4. The army was ideologically opposed to the kind of economic solution proposed.: 軍方從意識形態角度出發反對所提議的經濟方案。

5. Last year, economic growth tailed off to below four percent.: 去年，經濟增長率下降到4%以下。