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Socio vs Economic - What's the difference?

socio | economic |

As a noun socio

is partner, associate.

As an adjective economic is

economic.

socio

English

Noun

(-)
  • (informal) At an institute of education, a class where sociology is taught.
  • (informal) The discipline of sociology.
  • * 1999 , Lynn Freed, The bungalow
  • Just as I stood apart from the sort of Jewish women who majored in psych and socio at the local university and announced their engagements just before graduation.
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    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

    Anagrams

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