Clues for the word "ECONOMY"

We've had 52 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 69 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on March 26, 2026.

Definition of economy

n. - The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.
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.
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.
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.