economicsとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From economy, from Latin oeconomia, from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, “management of a household, administration”), from οἶκος (oîkos, “house”) + νόμος (nómos, “management”).

発音

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌikəˈnɑmɪks/, /ˌɛkəˈnɑmɪks/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪks/, /ˌɛkəˈnɒmɪks/

名詞

economics (uncountable)

1. (social sciences) The study of resource allocation, distribution and consumption; of capital and investment; and of management of the factors of production.

   Mary studied economics for 5 years before going into banking.

   Synonyms: dismal science; see also Thesaurus:economics

   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.

Holonyms

• social science

派生語

• clinicoeconomics
• -nomics

関連する語

• economy