different between economic vs adventurism

English

Alternative forms

• economick, œconomic (archaic)
• œconomick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French economique, from Latin oeconomicus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (oikonomikós, “skilled with household management”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?k??n?m?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??k??n?m?k/
• Rhymes: -?m?k

Adjective

economic (comparative more economic, superlative most economic)

1. Pertaining to an economy.
2. Frugal; cheap (in the sense of representing good value); economical.
3. 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 warfare

Translations

Anagrams

• oncomice

Ladin

Adjective

economic m pl

1. plural of economich

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin oeconomicus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

economic m (feminine singular economica, masculine plural economics, feminine plural economicas)

1. economic

Derived terms

• economicament

Related terms

• economia

Romanian

Etymology

From French économique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.ko?no.mik/

Adjective

economic m or n (feminine singular economic?, masculine plural economici, feminine and neuter plural economice)

1. economic
2. economical

Declension

English

Etymology

From adventure +? -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?v?n(t)????z(?)m/

Noun

adventurism (countable and uncountable, plural adventurisms)

1. The behaviour of an adventurer; risk-taking. [from 19th c.]
   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, p. 161,^[1]

     […] she really hadn’t wanted me to think of her as given over wholly to sexual excess and adventurism […]

   • 1980, Susan Sontag, “Fascinating Fascism” in Under the Sign of Saturn, New York: Vintage, 1981, pp. 101-102,

     In pornographic literature, films, and gadgetry throughout the world […] the SS has become a referent of sexual adventurism.

2. (politics) The taking of excessive risks by a government in their political, economic or foreign affairs. [from 20th c.]
   • 1993, Ng?g? wa Thiong’o, Moving the Centre: The Struggle for Cultural Freedom, Nairobi: EAEP, Part I, Chapter 2, p. 22,

     Even where they were aware of the devastating effects of imperialism on the subject peoples, as in Conrad’s description of the dying victims of colonial adventurism in Heart of Darkness, they could not free themselves from the Eurocentric basis of their vision.

   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 133:

     The rejection of foreign adventurism derived partly from an awareness of the dynastic vulnerability of the Bourbon line, partly from the country's economic as well as its military fragility – and partly too from the increasingly evident limitations of France's traditional international allies.

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