Economic Social Political Issues Government’s Policy Small Adjective

• social, economic and political issues
• economic growth/cooperation/development/reform
• the government’s economic policy
• economic history

economic

1. connected with the trade, industry and development of wealth of a country, an area or a society
• see also economy (1)
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/economy
• social, economic and political issues
• economic growth/cooperation/development/reform
• the government’s economic policy
• economic history
• the current economic climate
• This book deals with the social, economic and political issues of the period.
• She had got into financial difficulties.
• Tokyo is a major financial centre.
• closer European monetary union
• the government’s economic policy
• the economic aspects of having children
• It is usually economical to buy washing powder in large quantities.
2. producing enough profit to continue
• synonym profitable
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/profitable
• The play was very successful on Broadway.
• The company has had another successful year.
• a highly profitable business
• The movie was not a commercial success (= made no profit).
• They do a lot of business in lucrative overseas markets.
• Small local shops stop being economic when a supermarket opens up nearby.

Extra Examples

• A public spending programme is out of the question in the current economic climate.
• Economic growth was fastest in Japan.
• It’s simply not economic for these small farmers to start buying large amounts of expensive fertilizer.
• She’s a lecturer in economic history.
• Small local shops stop being economic when a supermarket opens up nearby.
• The government’s economic policy has been broadly successful.
• This book deals with the social, economic and political issues of the period.

Word Origin

• late Middle English: via Old French and Latin from Greek oikonomikos, from oikonomia ‘household management’, based on oikos ‘house’ + nemein ‘manage’. Originally a noun, the word denoted household management or a person skilled in this, hence the early sense of the adjective (late 16th cent.) ‘relating to household management’. Modern senses date from the mid 19th cent.