economics

economics
plural noun
[often treated as sing.]
  1. the branch of knowledge concerned with the production, consumption, and transfer of wealth
    经济学
    ■the condition of a region or group as regards material prosperity
    经济情况
    he is responsible for the island's modest economics.
    他对该岛不繁荣的经济状况负有责任。
语源
  1. late 16th cent. (denoting the science of household management): from economic + the plural suffix -s, originally on the pattern of Greek ta oikonomika (plural), the name of a treatise by Aristotle. Current senses date from the late 18th cent
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