conodont | (noun) small (2 inches long) extinct eellike fish with a finned tail and a notochord and having cone-shaped teeth containing cellular bone; late Cambrian to late Triassic; possible predecessor of the cyclostomes | - |
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(noun) the tiny fossil cone-shaped tooth of a primitive vertebrate of order Conodonta | - |
conoid | (noun) a shape whose base is a circle and whose sides taper up to a point | Synonyms: cone, cone shape |
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econometric | (adjective) of or relating to econometrics | - |
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econometrician | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrist |
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econometrics | (noun) the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data | - |
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econometrist | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrician |
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economic | (adjective) of or relating to the science of economics | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth | Synonyms: economical |
(adjective) using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness | Synonyms: economical |
(adjective) financially rewarding | - |
(adjective) concerned with worldly necessities of life (especially money) | - |
economical | (adjective) of or relating to an economy, the system of production and management of material wealth | Synonyms: economic |
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(adjective) using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness | Synonyms: economic |
(adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting |
economically | (adverb) with respect to economic science | - |
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(adverb) with respect to the economic system | - |
(adverb) in an economical manner | - |
economics | (noun) the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management | Synonyms: economic science, political economy |
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economise | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economize, husband |
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(verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economize, save |
economiser | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economizer |
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economist | (noun) an expert in the science of economics | Synonyms: economic expert |
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economize | (verb) use cautiously and frugally | Synonyms: conserve, economise, husband |
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(verb) spend sparingly, avoid the waste of | Synonyms: economise, save |
economizer | (noun) a frugal person who limits spending and avoids waste | Synonyms: economiser |
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economy | (noun) an act of economizing; reduction in cost | Synonyms: saving |
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(noun) frugality in the expenditure of money or resources | Synonyms: thriftiness |
(noun) the efficient use of resources | - |
(noun) the system of production and distribution and consumption | Synonyms: economic system |
iconoclasm | (noun) the orientation of an iconoclast | - |
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iconoclast | (noun) someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions | - |
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(noun) a destroyer of images used in religious worship | Synonyms: image breaker |
iconoclastic | (adjective) destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited | - |
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(adjective) characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions | - |
iconography | (noun) the images and symbolic representations that are traditionally associated with a person or a subject | - |
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iconolatry | (noun) the worship of sacred images | - |
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iconology | (noun) the branch of art history that studies visual images and their symbolic meaning (especially in social or political terms) | - |
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iconoscope | (noun) the first practical television-camera for picture pickup; invented in 1923 by Vladimir Kosma Zworykin | - |
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macroeconomic | (adjective) of or relating to macroeconomics | - |
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macroeconomics | (noun) the branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy | - |
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macroeconomist | (noun) an economist who specializes in macroeconomics | Synonyms: macroeconomic expert |
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microeconomic | (adjective) of or relating to microeconomics | - |
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microeconomics | (noun) the branch of economics that studies the economy of consumers or households or individual firms | - |
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microeconomist | (noun) an economist who specializes in microeconomics | Synonyms: microeconomic expert |
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socioeconomic | (adjective) involving social as well as economic factors | - |
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socioeconomically | (adverb) with respect to socioeconomic factors | - |
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uneconomic | (adjective) wasteful of resources | Synonyms: uneconomical |
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uneconomical | (adjective) inefficient in use of time and effort and materials | Synonyms: wasteful |
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(adjective) wasteful of resources | Synonyms: uneconomic |