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Borrowed from Latin oeconomia , from Historical Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomía, administration of a household, administration”), from οἶκος (oîkos, house”) + νέμω (némō, distribute, allocate”) (surface analysis eco- +‎ -nomy ). The primary recorded sense of the phrase economy, present in a work presumably composed in 1440, is the administration of […]