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Economic vs Distributive - What's the difference?

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Economic is a synonym of distributive.


As adjectives the difference between economic and distributive

is that economic is economic while distributive is relating to distribution.

As a noun distributive is

(grammar) a distributive adjective or pronoun.

economic

English

Alternative forms

* economick (archaic) * (archaic) * (obsolete)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to an economy.
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  • , title= Boundary problems , passage=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. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.}}
  • Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value) ; economical.
  • Pertaining to the study of money and its movement.
  • Usage notes

    Modern usage prefers economic' when describing the economy of a region or country (and when referring to personal or family budgeting).
    '
    Economical
    is preferred when referring to thrift or value for money.

    Derived terms

    * economical * economics

    Anagrams

    * ----

    distributive

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to distribution.
  • Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
  • distributive justice
    (Jonathan Swift)
  • (mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
  • If function f'' is distributive with respect to function ''g , then f(a, g(b,c)) = g(f(a,b), f(a,c)).
    If the operation \star is distributive with respect to the operation \circ, then a \star (b \circ c) = (a \star b) \circ (a \star c) .
  • (logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
  • (grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
  • a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as "each", "either", or "every"
    a distributive numeral, such as Latin "bini" (two by two)

    Derived terms

    * distributive lattice

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) A distributive adjective or pronoun.
  • (math) A distributive numeral.