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Definition of Economical

Economical

  1. Pertaining to the household; domestic.
  2. Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs.
  3. Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.
  4. Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of time.
  5. Relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to political economy; as, economic purposes; economical truths.
  6. Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.

Economical Quotations

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson

Animals that we eat are raised for food in the most economical way possible, and the serious food producers do it in the most humane way possible. I think anyone who is a carnivore needs to understand that meat does not originally come in these neat little packages.
Julia Child

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
James Buchan

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
Gene Tierney

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
Ian Williams
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Economical Translations

economical in Afrikaans is ekonomies
economical in Dutch is economisch
economical in Latin is parcus, insumptuosus
economical in Swedish is sparsam, ekonomisk, ekonomisk, sparsam

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