Noun

(uncountable) The quality of being brief in duration.

* {{quote-book, year=2005

, author=Bill Bryson , title=A short history of nearly everything , passage= Thanks to Global Positioning Systems we can see that Europe and North America are parting at about the speed a fingernail grows—roughly two yards in a human lifetime. If you were prepared to wait long enough, you could ride from Los Angeles all the way up to San Francisco. It is only the brevity of lifetimes that keeps us from appreciating the changes.}}

(uncountable) Succinctness; conciseness.

* {{quote-book, year=1966

, author=Jackson E. Morris , title=Principles of scientific and technical writing , passage=A good technical writing style will now be defined as a style possessing clarity, brevity , and variety.}}

(rare, countable) A short piece of writing.

Noun

(wikipedia economy) (economies)

Effective management of the resources of a community or system.

Collective focus of the study of money, currency and trade, and the efficient use of resources.

Frugal use of resources.

* Jonathan Swift

I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease.

The system of production and distribution and consumption. The overall measure of a currency system; as the national economy.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-31, volume=408, issue=8851, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Horns of a trilemma , passage=An economy open to free movement of capital can keep a fixed exchange rate, for example, only by subjugating monetary-policy goals to its defence—by raising interest rates sharply, say, when capital outflows put downward pressure on the currency. Yet the trilemma also implies that an economy can enjoy both free capital flows and an independent monetary policy, so long as it gives up worrying about its exchange rate.}}

(theology) The method of divine government of the world.

(archaic) Management of one’s (l).