In a sentence
Six example sentences with economy, each labelled with its topic.
When factories, shops and households all pull back at once, the whole economy shrinks even though no single decision was foolish.
Economics
Bond traders bet on the whole economy rather than one firm, so a poor harvest can move prices more than a bankruptcy.
Finance
Half the island's economy runs on ferries, hotels and the fish they serve, so a bad storm season empties every till.
Travel
Every candidate promised to fix the economy, though none of them explained which factories, shops or households they meant.
Politics
An economy built on coal exports cannot cut emissions quickly without closing the mines that pay for its schools.
Environment
A startup's fate rides on the whole economy, since a downturn dries up customers and investors in the same quarter.
Startups
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Found in 9 published word lists
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- Business English Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)Authoritative
- Israeli Psychometric English dictionary (Campus IL / NITE)Authoritative
- Science Vocabulary ListAuthoritative
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- GregMat 960 GRE WordsRecognized
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