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Economic vs Ecosystem - What's the difference?

economic | ecosystem |

As an adjective economic

is pertaining to an economy.

As a noun ecosystem is

a system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.

economic

English

Alternative forms

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

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to an economy.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , 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

    Related terms

    * economise * economize * economic blockade * economic embargo * economic warfare

    Anagrams

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    ecosystem

    English

    (wikipedia ecosystem)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A system formed by an ecological community and its environment that functions as a unit.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01
    • , author=Donald Worster , title=A Drier and Hotter Future , volume=100, issue=1, page=70 , magazine= citation , passage=Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems , and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.}}
  • The interconnectedness of organisms (plants, animals, microbes) with each other and their environment.
  • (business, marketing) A set of interconnected products and services.