economic

Adjective

• financially rewarding
  • it was no longer economic to keep the factory open
    
  • have to keep prices high enough to make it economic to continue the service
    

• concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money)
  • he wrote the book primarily for economic reasons
    
  • gave up the large house for economic reasons
    
  • in economic terms they are very privileged
    

• using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness
  • an economic use of home heating oil
    
  • a modern economical heating system
    
  • an economical use of her time
    

• of or relating to the science of economics
  • economic theory
    

• of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth
  • economic growth
    
  • aspects of social, political, and economical life