Economic vs Distributive - What's the difference?
economic | distributive | Synonyms |
Pertaining to an economy.
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, title= Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value) ; economical.
Pertaining to the study of money and its movement.
' Economical is preferred when referring to thrift or value for money. Relating to distribution.
Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing a proper share to each.
(mathematics) A property of functions that have a rule describing how the function can be performed to the individual components of another operation.
(logic) Assigning the species of a general term.
(grammar) Expressing separation; denoting a taking singly, not collectively.
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)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.}}
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 * economicsAnagrams
* ----distributive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- distributive justice
- (Jonathan Swift)
- If function f'' is distributive with respect to function ''g , then .
- If the operation is distributive with respect to the operation , then .
- a distributive adjective or pronoun, such as "each", "either", or "every"
- a distributive numeral, such as Latin "bini" (two by two)