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# economics

«economics» in Mova's school dictionary: **The study of how people, businesses and countries make…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (economics — uncountable, takes a singular verb)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The study of how people, businesses and countries make, buy, sell and use money, goods and services. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/economics/#m1)

2) The money side of a plan or business: The economics of the plan don't work. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/economics/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In school economics is a subject for older pupils; maths problems about prices, profit and saving are its first steps. Phrases: «study economics», «home economics» (old name for cooking and household lessons), «the economics of».

### examples

- My sister studies economics at university. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/economics/#x1)
- Economics is about how people choose to spend money. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/economics/#x2)
- In home economics we baked bread. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/economics/#x3)
- The economics of the shop are simple: buy cheap, sell a little dearer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/economics/#x4)
- Economics helps explain why prices go up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/economics/#x5)
- She wants to teach economics one day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/economics/#x6)

### note

Ends in -s but is singular: «Economics is interesting» (like maths, physics). Person: economist; adjective: economic.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «economics» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/economics/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.