economy

noun

1. an act of economizing
reduction in cost

e.g. it was a small economy to walk to work every day
there was a saving of 50 cents

Synonym: saving

2. frugality in the expenditure of money or resources

e.g. the Scots are famous for their economy

Synonym: thriftiness

3. the efficient use of resources

e.g. economy of effort

4. the system of production and distribution and consumption

Synonym: economic system

1. （国家或地区的）经济，经济体制
An economy is the system according to which the money, industry, and trade of a country or region are organized.

e.g. Zimbabwe boasts Africa's most industrialised economy.
津巴布韦是非洲工业化程度最高的经济体。

2. 经济情况;经济状况
A country's economy is the wealth that it gets from business and industry.

e.g. The Japanese economy grew at an annual rate of more than 10 per cent.
日本经济以年增长率超过10%的速度增长。

3. 节约;节俭
Economy is the use of the minimum amount of money, time, or other resources needed to achieve something, so that nothing is wasted.

e.g. ...improvements in the fuel economy of cars...
汽车节油方面的改进
e.g. There was mostly silence. I have never known such economy with words.
大部分时候都是沉默，我还从未见过如此惜字如金的情形。

4. 精打细算
If you make economies, you try to save money by not spending money on unnecessary things.

economy

e.g. They will make economies by hiring fewer part-time workers.
他们将通过减少雇用兼职工人来节省开支。

5. 经济的;便宜的
Economy services such as travel are cheap and have no luxuries or extras.

6. （比标准包装大的）经济装的
Economy is used to describe large packs of goods which are cheaper than normal sized packs.

economy的反义词

e.g. ...an economy pack containing 150 assorted screws.
内含150枚各种螺丝的经济装

7. 假节约;看似省钱的做法
If you describe an attempt to save money as a false economy, you mean that you have not saved any money as you will have to spend a lot more later.

e.g. A cheap bed can be a false economy...
便宜的床看似省钱，其实可能不然。
e.g. It seems a false economy to me to cut down on libraries.
在我看来，减少图书馆的数量并不是真正的节约。

1. 节省：是现代所有科学的基本原则(也是人类历史上大部分时期的原则,能用一公斤泥土做成的罐子,且能保持功用,用两公斤就是浪费,没有效率嘛.至于里面逻辑,你去问古代人吧.节省恐怕就是逻辑.)所有的简化都出自节省(ECONOMY)这一个道理.你从福建到北京,

2. 省墨：这是在打印质量很差的省墨(Economy)状态下得到的最快打印速度,而文档5%的覆盖率也低了一些. 实际测试中,我们制作的测试文档按照Word缺省设置满页均为中文文字,覆盖率达到8%以上,并分别在各种不同的分辨率模式下进行,

3. economy：econ; 节约