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Definition of Economical

1. Adjective. Using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness. "An economical use of her time"

2. Adjective. Of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth. "Aspects of social, political, and economical life"

3. Adjective. Avoiding waste. "`scotch' is used only informally"

Definition of Economical

1. Adjective. Careful with money so as not to spend too much; prudent; thrifty. ¹

2. Adjective. Relating to economy in any other sense. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Economical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Economical

economic mobilization economic nationalism economic nationalisms economic output economic policy economic process economic refugee economic rent economic science economic sector

economic strangulation economic system economic theory economic value economic value of life economical (current term) economical with the truth economically economicalness economick

economicly economics economics department economics profession economies economies of scale economisation economisations economise economised

Literary usage of Economical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
"AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF economical LEARNING By HE CONARD, High School of Commerce, and GF ARPS, Ohio State University Introductory. ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1914)
"By AIEE THE economical CAPACITY OF A COMBINED HYDROELECTRIC AND STEAM POWER PLANT BY CARY T. HUTCHINSON ABSTRACT OF PAPER This paper develops a general ..."

3. The Western World; Or, Travels in the United States in 1846-47: Exhibiting by Alexander Mackay (1849)
"A War of Races inevitable.—The Catastrophe now only postponed. —Results of the Conflict, when it arises.—economical Demerits of Slavery.—Proofs of these. ..."

4. Principles of Political Economy with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1848)
"OF THE ORDINARY FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT, CONSIDERED AS TO THEIR economical EFFECTS. $ 1. BEFORE we discuss the line of demarkation between the things with ..."

5. Principles of Political Economy, with Some of Their Applications to Social by John Stuart Mill (1896)
"There is no need to expatiate on the influence exercised over the economical interests of society by the degree of completeness with which this duty of ..."

6. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1913)
"For this reason, his theory of knowledge has little effect upon his political and economical essays, although they are closely connected with his ethical ..."

7. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"Men have often written and spoken as though the economical development of the colonies had been stifled by the narrow and selfish policy of the ..."

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