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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
economically
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
economically active
▪ The proportion of men aged 65–69 who are economically active has decreased.
economically/commercially justifiable
economically/commercially/financially viable
▪ New projects must be economically viable.
economically/technically/politically etc feasible
▪ It was no longer financially feasible to keep the community centre open.
socially/economically/politically etc divisive
▪ socially divisive policies
socially/geographically/economically etc advantaged
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
▪ Half the male population is economically active, compared to one-quarter of the female population.
▪ The General Household Survey in 1979 found that only 20 percent of economically active married men supported a dependent wife and children.
▪ About 63 percent. of women of working age with children are economically active.
▪ The numbers and proportions of those economically active in a sample of developed countries are shown in Table 1.5.
▪ As for the economically active, 56 percent were employed full- or part-time and 44 percent were unemployed.
▪ Before they became redundant some three years earlier, all of them had been economically active and in full-time employment.
▪ As Figure 2.8 shows, substantially more men than women are economically active.
dependent
▪ It feeds off the passions of a small and economically dependent country and the emotional demands it places on the game.
▪ The inner ring is economically dependent on core Tyneside for the bulk of its employment opportunities.
▪ A subscription would make Leapor economically dependent upon the goodwill of the wealthy.
feasible
▪ We can expect bigger screens, and it will be more economically feasible to justify high-capability entertainment zones.
▪ Conventional wisdom in the United States had it that this is not economically feasible.
▪ The new semi-automated test could at last make massive screening programmes for cervical cancer economically feasible.
▪ The bottom line: Taking time now to plan is a wise investment toward a more enjoyable and economically feasible vacation.
▪ The 1979 round of oil price rises made extraction more or less economically feasible.
▪ The determination of whether or not it will be economically feasible to make this purchase.
independent
▪ First, there has to be an agreement between economically independent undertakings.
▪ Most others had come to the City as economically independent families.
viable
▪ In recent years coal gasification has become increasingly economically viable due to technological developments.
▪ But they say that around £100 million is needed to ensure such projects are economically viable in the short term.
▪ Nuclear power has never been economically viable.
▪ At present such storage is not economically viable.
▪ Changing print technology will simply serve to reduce further these barriers to entry, making even lower print runs economically viable.
▪ Observers have pointed out that the Gabcikovo power plant could only be economically viable if a substantial amount of water is diverted.
▪ The development of these was not remotely economically viable at pre-1974 oil prices.
▪ It might also finally make recycling economically viable.
■ VERB
become
▪ It may therefore become economically and politically expedient to encourage a shift to more labour intensive methods of primary production.
▪ For instance, in western societies women have become economically more important than hitherto.
▪ Unless action is taken soon, many rural areas will become economically unsustainable.
▪ The pipe-making process was first developed by Bill Menzel, but has become economically competitive since recycled plastic has been used.
▪ As the country has become economically and militarily stronger, partially concealed ambiguities regarding interaction with the West have resurfaced.
develop
▪ But within the North some areas get the resources to enable them to develop economically while others don't.
disadvantaged
▪ There is every chance for women and the economically disadvantaged to enter on the same level as anybody else.
▪ These students not only were economically disadvantaged but were, by definition, academically disadvantaged as well.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
economically/politically/scientifically etc illiterate
▪ Ninety per cent of the population is kept politically illiterate, and the government takes orders from the corporations.
politically/economically/financially etc motivated
▪ But he does deny that his opposition is politically motivated.
▪ But he said he did not know if all of those killings were politically motivated.
▪ But some think dismissal was politically motivated.
▪ Five people were killed and 10 injured in overnight politically motivated violence in black townships around Johannesburg.
▪ However, Melancia maintained that he was the innocent victim of a politically motivated smear campaign.
▪ She said the timing of the vote was politically motivated.
▪ The potential for mischief in the international system by politically motivated or overzealous prosecutions is great.
▪ Yet because they are politically motivated they may be, in some degree, distrusted.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ economically depressed areas
▪ Economically, our city has never been stronger.
▪ We did the printing as economically as we could possibly make it.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Despite these economically based differences of opinion, those passing initiative petitions claim to have found widespread public support.
▪ In contrast, where class structures are less developed - both economically and culturally - the political institutions may be inherently weak.
▪ Little would be changed economically by such a move.
▪ Socially, economically and in human terms, the citizens of the Community are coming together.
▪ The GATT-Bretton Woods system has also come to the end of the line economically.
▪ This can not have been an economically sensible decision.
▪ This is not to denigrate what the Six did achieve economically and politically during the first few years of the organisation.
▪ Women are still relatively new to the marketplace and are more economically insecure than men.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Economically

Economically \E`co*nom"ic*al*ly\, adv. With economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure.

Wiktionary
economically

adv. 1 (context manner English) In an economical manner; not wastefully; not extravagantly; prudently. 2 (context domain English) From the perspective of economics or an economy.

WordNet
economically

  1. adv. with respect to economic science; "economically this proposal makes no sense"

  2. with respect to the economic system; "economically the country is worse off"

Usage examples of "economically".

Working easily, economically, he dug them from sand or broke the byssus threads that anchored them to rock.

Power becomes propaganda, ethically speaking, and regulation, economically speaking.

Within reasonable limits, it is justifiable to treat the economically superior sections of the nation as the eugenically superior.

Aiding anti-Communist efforts abroad raised the price of Soviet expansionism and weakened the USSR militarily, economically, and psychologically.

All these forms of recrystallization within the community, large and small, arose because of the inadaptability and want of vigour and cooperation in the formal governing, economically directive and educational systems.

Earth has been taken over by a nasty, corrupt, bureaucratic military dictatorship, more banana republic writ large and high-tech than efficiently fascist, though utterly fascist economically, run in an amoral fashion by a generalissimo named Myson for the greedy profit of himself and his cronies.

He endeavored to imitate the dashing style of these economically wasteful young men, without pretending to conform to their prudential rules.

For the economic rationale of this, I must refer disciples of Siegfried to a tract from my hand published by the Fabian Society and entitled The Impossibilities of Anarchism, which explains why, owing to the physical constitution of our globe, society cannot effectively organize the production of its food, clothes and housing, nor distribute them fairly and economically on any anarchic plan: nay, that without concerting our social action to a much higher degree than we do at present we can never get rid of the wasteful and iniquitous welter of a little riches and a deal of poverty which current political humbug calls our prosperity and civilization.

During the short half century since Jewry adopted Zionism, some ten millions of Jews have been dumped on the shores of North America to displace Americans biologically and economically, to live parasitically on the American organism, to distort the social and spiritual life of the nation.

If that was the case, the city of Praunce itself would probably be a major center economically as well as politically, and would attract people from all over the continent.

We are aesthetically and emotionally drawn to primitivism, but not economically or politically.

First, the very idea of an analogy between the separate works of God leads to the conclusion that the system which is of less importance is economically or sacramentally connected with the more momentous system, and of this conclusion the theory, to which I was inclined as a boy, viz.

And if there were, as there were, avaricious men among them, we must be careful not to blame them more than those whose avarice or excessive thrift was economically more beneficial to the world and to the community and the colony and to themselves.

The petrol he carried, used economically, might keep the Tourer in the air for twenty minutes, not more.

Just in so far as the combination of capital continues to be economically necessary, it is bound to be accompanied by the completer unionizing of labor.