Economic
Economic adjective - Yielding a profit.
Usage example: unfortunately, raising employees' salaries would not be economic—the business would have to fold
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Synonyms for Economic
Useful and economic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Useful" instead an adjective "Economic".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- valuable and economic
- valuable and useful
- advantageous and economic
- advantageous and useful
- material and economic
- material and useful
- effective and economic
- effective and useful
- profitable and economic
- profitable and useful
- paying and economic
- paying and useful
- lucrative and economic
- lucrative and useful
Both words in one sentence
- With the US still mired in economic trouble, though, can its outdated, underfunded forces offer any useful resistance?
Source: Creator / Dale Brown -
Most useful as a means to claim exclusive economic rights in the surrounding ocean, Rockall is normally uninhabited, but claimed by the UK, Ireland, Iceland and Denmark.
Source: "Far Side" Island -
Also, her late husband Federico, the Duke of Vallenberg: cousin of the king, he too had useful suggestions to stop the economic crisis, and before being eaten by a shark was on the frontline in the fight against the Grey Ravens.
Source: Comic Book / Diabolik
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