economies

NOUN

saving, frugality

Synonyms

STRONGEST

recession

STRONG

abridgement austerity care carefulness caution curtailment cutback decrease deduction direction discretion husbandry layoff meanness miserliness moratorium parsimony providence prudence reduction regulation restraint retrenchment rollback shrinkage stinginess supervision thrift thriftiness

WEAK

parcity scrimping skimping sparingness

Antonyms

STRONG

addition carelessness disregard enlargement expansion extravagance imprudence increase indiscretion neglect negligence raise spending thoughtlessness

WEAK

squandering

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economies

This limits the economies of scale and standardisation, though flexible manufacturing could help somewhat.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

This, and a range of other publications hailing Asia’s economic “miracle” led Edwards to conclude “too many people believed the beguiling narrative” and as a consequence, “lent these economies cheap, abundant capital which was misallocated.”

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026

"We hope that France and Germany, as major economies in the world, will uphold openness, cooperation and free trade," the commerce ministry said in a statement.

From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026

Those forces are testing the resilience economies have shown through a series of crises, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Wednesday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

As we saw in Chapter 2, though, Polynesian political and social organization and economies underwent great diversification in different environments.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond