Fiance vs Economic - What's the difference?
fiance | economic |
A man who is engaged to be married.
A person engaged to be married.
* 2009 , B. R. Laine, Tales from Suffolk County , page 107:
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.
As a noun fiance
is .As a verb fiance
is (obsolete) to betroth; to affiance.As an adjective economic is
economic.fiance
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Alternative forms
* fianceNoun
(en noun)- West said that she was proud of their relationship and is looking forward to meeting his fiancé .
Usage notes
* Traditionally, the spelling fiancé is used for a man who is engaged, with being the female counterpart. (This is a reflection of the corresponding distinction in French.)See also
* engage * marriageAnagrams
* ----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.