economy

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

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• format
• approximately
• bias
• status
• analysis
• published
• stable
• modify
• scope
• positive
• demonstrated
• cultural