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单词 economy
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economy
(ɪkɒnəmi )
Word forms: economies
1. countable noun B2
An economy is the system according to which the money, industry, and trade of a country or region are organized.
Zimbabwe is a highly industrialized economy.
2. countable noun B2
A country's economy is the wealth that it gets from business and industry.
The Japanese economy grew at an annual rate of more than 10 per cent.
3. uncountable noun
Economy is the use of the minimum amount of money, time, or other resources needed to achieve something, so that nothing is wasted.
...improvements in the fuel economy of cars.
There was mostly silence. I have never known such economy with words.
4. countable noun [usually plural]
If you make economies, you try to save money by not spending money on unnecessary things.
They will make economies by hiring fewer part-time workers.
5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Economy services such as travel are cheap and have no luxuries or extras.
6. economy class adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
On an aeroplane, an economy class ticket or seat is the cheapest available.
The price includes two economy class airfares from Brisbane to Los Angeles.
7. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Economy is used to describe large packs of goods which are cheaper than normal-sized packs.
...an economy pack containing 150 assorted screws.
8. a false economy phrase
If you describe an attempt to save money as a false economy, you mean that you have not saved any money as you will have to spend a lot more later.
A cheap bed can be a false economy.
It seems a false economy to me to cut down on libraries.
Quotations:
Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably won't wantAnthony HopeThe Dolly Dialogues
Everybody is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditureAnthony Eden
Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselvesWilliam Lowndes
Cut your coat according to your cloth
Collocations:
ailing economy
Strikes paralysed Britain's ailing economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
A radical approach is needed to boost our ailing economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
There they could have learnt from experts how entrepreneurs help our ailing economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
digital economy
The future lay in people, like him, who understood the digital economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The town is the UK's fastest growing in the digital economy, according to a report released this year.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Ministers are to unveil funding of more than £40 m for the digital economy, as part of a £400m package to boost innovation.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
domestic economy
The figures underscored the continued weakness of the domestic economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Other funds are using their wealth to prop up domestic economies rather than foreign ones.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Linked to this, the domestic economy is in a very precarious position.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
economy expands
Competition among recruiters as the economy expands has pushed graduate salaries to an average of 28,000, up by 1,000 in a year.
Times, Sunday Times
The more confident households feel, the more they spend and the faster the economy expands.
Times, Sunday Times
The nation's 1.2 billion people rely on imported oil for 80 per cent of their requirements, which are rising sharply as the economy expands.
Times, Sunday Times
Weaker growth ahead - while the economy expands by only 1.6 per cent next year and 1.7 per cent in 2019 - means huge pressures on the state coffers will also continue.
The Sun
For these reasons, when capital stock of an economy expands, entrepreneurs will only be able to use it at a lower marginal profit ratio.
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economy grows
The former cabbie added: 'The town needs positive news to encourage businesses to get the economy growing again.
The Sun (2012)
People are also gloomy about the general economic situation, while confidence in the economy growing was little better.
The Sun (2008)
We need the right kind of lending and capital investment to get the economy growing.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The economy grew by nine per cent - down from 10.1 per cent and the lowest quarterly movement in four years.
The Sun (2008)
It may be only a row of ramshackle huts no bigger than garden sheds, but it suggests a cash economy growing beyond mere subsistence.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
economy growth
In the past decade and a half, emerging economy growth has always significantly exceeded that of the advanced world.
Times, Sunday Times
In 2012 and 2013, advanced economy growth was just over 1% a year.
Times, Sunday Times
To truly capitalise on the potential to accelerate the digital economy growth, we need to raise our ambitions.
Times, Sunday Times
The extreme poverty increased from 16% to 20% during 2001 to 2012, even the economy growth.
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Thus, in committing to civic agriculture, local communities contribute to an economy growth in the agricultural sector.
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economy recovers
What's not to like in a 4 per cent yield, with the prospect of being able to raise rents gradually as the economy recovers?
Times, Sunday Times
But an irresponsible credit expansion and unsustainable housing bubble have to be unwound before the economy recovers.
Times, Sunday Times
They will cease and, as the economy recovers, the gap between tax revenues and government spending will narrow.
Times,Sunday Times
Tourism booms, investors pile in, exports rise and the economy recovers.
Times, Sunday Times
Succeeding during the recession suggests your business will boom when the economy recovers.
Times, Sunday Times
economy sector
And with the order of battle now drawn up for the war against excessive fuel consumption and nasty emissions, opportunities in the economy sector are myriad.
Times, Sunday Times
It makes it possible to estimate the resource consumption and waste assimilation requirements of a defined human population or economy sector in terms of corresponding productive land area.
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The economic effects were mainly focused on the city's export economy sectors.
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Under the influence of the quality movement, workflows, in knowledge economy sectors as well as in manufacturing, became the subject of further scrutiny and optimization efforts.
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economy shrinks
Analysts expect a further £45 billion of losses if the economy shrinks by 9.5 per cent this year.
Times,Sunday Times
As the economy shrinks, receipts from income tax are set to drop by 3.5 per cent next year; those from corporation tax are set to tumble by 7 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times
As unemployment climbs towards 15 per cent and the economy shrinks by 8.5 per cent this year, the report sets out a 'thinking the unthinkable' path to recovery.
Times, Sunday Times
As the economy shrinks at a headlong rate, tax receipts are collapsing.
Times, Sunday Times
When their orders dry up, our economy shrinks.
Times, Sunday Times
efficient economy
In the longer term, however, an efficient economy relies on business serving the consumer, not the other way round.
Times,Sunday Times
Those will come only as a result of a more productive and efficient economy.
Times, Sunday Times
An efficient economy requires the rule of law, transparency and enforceable property rights.
Times, Sunday Times
In an efficient economy, there's no way of avoiding this.
Times, Sunday Times
It's because of the role of the price mechanism in an efficient economy.
Times, Sunday Times
export economy
The land seizures and changes in agriculture reduced the production of commodities for the export economy.
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By the 1890s their use in the export economy centered around the palm-oil trade.
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Its colonial export economy had to be based on growing economic crops, but before 1907 commercial agriculture had hardly started to develop.
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The economic effects were mainly focused on the city's export economy sectors.
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The export economy also remains subject to fluctuations in world prices.
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faltering economy
Swift change could harm Britain's already faltering economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Getting into the workplace is hard enough without a faltering economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Today the faltering economy has replaced immigration as the biggest concern, as growth slows and unemployment rises.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
fix the economy
He will also vow to take the tough decisions needed to fix the economy.
The Sun
He pledged to make the sweeping changes needed to revive our society, just as she did to fix the economy.
The Sun
Surely, to fix the economy in the future we need educated people tackling the problems?
Times, Sunday Times
In the advertisement the words 'he promised he would fix the economy,' appear followed by 'he failed'.
Times, Sunday Times
But the austerity will remain; the long-term plan that he hopes will fix the economy even as it hurts him politically.
Times, Sunday Times
fragile economy
Such indicators are seized upon by those attempting to read the runes of our increasingly fragile economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Millions of dollars were haemorrhaging from the fragile economy every day.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
The last thing the fragile economy needs is another fall in housing starts.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
fuel economy
It will be made of weight-saving carbon fibre - reinforced plastic to help improve the fuel economy to around 70mpg.
The Sun (2010)
A turbine engine doesn't offer any sort of fuel economy of course, in fact it's probably worse than a petrol car.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Neither delivers lightning performance, and if you drive either model with vigour the car's rather portly kerb weight hits fuel economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
How you drive is important: gentle acceleration and soft braking help to improve fuel economy, along with correct tyre pressure.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It had excellent fuel economy and there were no other twin-engined, wide-bodied jets on the market.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
global economy
The global economy is not a zero-sum game with relative winners and losers.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The global economy is still unstable and gold offers a good store of value.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Of all the threats facing the global economy, it is hard to compete with the problem posed by antimicrobial resistance.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The shipping industry has a longstanding status as a barometer of the global economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Trying to turn crumbs like this into a prognosis for the global economy is a fool's errand.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
growing economy
With a growing economy, opportunities also abound at home.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Even now most governments are assuming that people's claims collectively can be made to add up by a growing economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Britain now has a generation of entrepreneurs who are hungry for success and confident that a growing economy will support them.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
And it is thanks to a growing economy and investment rather than huge handouts.
The Sun (2012)
healthy economy
Government must invest in our creaking energy and transport infrastructure, services that are the life blood of a healthy economy.
Times, Sunday Times
We understand that healthy household budgets flow directly from a healthy economy.
The Sun
He took tough decisions to tackle the biggest budget deficit of any major economy and left behind a healthy economy and full employment.
Times, Sunday Times
Its new government must accept that reforming zeal requires a healthy economy that pays its way in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
The plan said that demand for rail travel was being added to by road congestion, a healthy economy and a better rail service.
Times, Sunday Times
hurt the economy
He suggested that it could hurt the economy by overloading energy networks as businesses shared more of the working days.
Times, Sunday Times
The initial run on the rouble was expected to hurt the economy, given its dependence on foreign credit.
Times, Sunday Times
But he said cuts would hurt the economy and military.
The Sun
He rejected claims that giving workers an extra day off would hurt the economy.
The Sun
So how much will the cuts hurt the economy?
Times, Sunday Times
improve the economy
We found that while governments will strain to improve the economy, reduce crime and protect our environment, they cannot actually 'make people happy'.
Times, Sunday Times
All it took to significantly improve my economy and reduce my fuel bill was some simple changes to my driving style.
The Sun
Any spare resources are needed to improve the economy of the town, and thereby the employment prospects of its citizens.
Times, Sunday Times
The market continues to benefit from last year's dramatic decline of the yen resulting from various economic measures to improve the economy and boost exports.
Times, Sunday Times
About eight in ten voters have a favourable opinion of him, according to polls published yesterday, and a similar proportion believe that he will improve the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
improving economy
Meanwhile, the original business is benefiting from the improving economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Ironically, an improving economy is likely to increase the problem, at least in the short term.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The suggestion recently has been that an improving economy has yet to feed through to consumer spending.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
industrial economy
The advanced industrial economies have moved away from heavy manufacturing to services and thence to the digital economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Recovery has been painfully slow throughout the advanced industrial economies.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It's an ambitious programme that has wide significance for other advanced industrial economies.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
local economy
It also puts money into the local economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
While poverty exists for some, the area has a relatively strong local economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
More demand will be sucked out of the local economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
manufacturing economy
Manufacturing boomed - we were the fifth largest manufacturing economy in the world.
Times, Sunday Times
In a manufacturing economy, it tells you all you need to know about month-tomonth changes in activity.
Times, Sunday Times
Let's turn some of our old industrial areas into free ports, revitalising the manufacturing economy.
The Sun
What was distinct about these four among most developing societies was that they industrialised, each creating a manufacturing economy of considerable size through decisive state intervention.
ST
A rising population imposed heavy demands on a mixed agrarian and manufacturing economy that could not keep up.
The Times Literary Supplement
modern economy
The app-based casualwork industry has become a force in the modern economy.
Times,Sunday Times
Data centres hold thousands of computers that store information and process the billions of transactions required to run a modern economy.
Times, Sunday Times
In a major speech, he will declare plans to sweep away 'clapped out rules that make no sense for modern families in a modern economy'.
The Sun
He asserted that a modern economy cannot prosper without airports and their connections with world markets.
Times, Sunday Times
When the crisis hit, the authorities recognised credit was the lifeblood of a modern economy.
Times, Sunday Times
national economy
UK cities are home to 60% of the national economy and 73% of highly skilled jobs.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Any business so integral to the national economy, he concluded, simply ought to be government owned.
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Yet these companies are too big for their own national economies.
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overall economy
The overall economy is emerging from the downturn.
The Sun (2009)
More people plus more work generally means the overall economy grows.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This gives some idea of how vital it is to the overall economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
rebuild the economy
In the meantime, we are paying tax and helping to rebuild your economy.
The Sun
Stick with us while we rebuild the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
We face a hard road to rebuild the economy.
The Sun
Austerity, though, and the need to rebuild the economy in an ever more competitive world, should not be allowed to be the overriding message.
Times, Sunday Times
I agree with them that in these tumultuous times government should focus relentlessly on how to return to growth and rebuild the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
recovering economy
A recovering economy has also resulted in rising employment.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
She has fuelled fears that the strong pound could hamper the UK's rapidly recovering economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The hike in value is put down to Britain's recovering economy and a boost in consumer confidence.
The Sun (2014)
reform the economy
His party was blamed for failing to reform the economy and did badly in local elections last month.
Times, Sunday Times
It explains why he wants to reform the economy without reforming politics.
Times, Sunday Times
We need to reform the economy to allow more people to share in the prosperity.
Times, Sunday Times
This will act as a safety valve and allow them to reform their economies.
Times, Sunday Times
It sees moral hazard in signing bailout cheques that may blunt these debtors' appetite to reform their economies.
Times, Sunday Times
regional economy
Those who make their living in hedge funds are a significant part of the regional economy.
Times, Sunday Times
A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the regional economy.
Times, Sunday Times
It plays an important role in its regional economy and even runs the local bus service, as well as offering work placements.
Times, Sunday Times
The pact should prove a boon to the regional economy on both sides of the border.
Times, Sunday Times
The more traditional industries, which still underpin much of the regional economy, fear the same.
Times, Sunday Times
revive the economy
He said cutting public spending would be a better way to revive the economy.
The Sun
He needs a clear economic plan to revive the economy.
Times,Sunday Times
We may rail against banks and bankers, but we desperately need an expansion of credit to revive the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
Will inflation targeting take a back seat in the short term, in an attempt to revive the economy with more interest rate cuts?
ST
When deflation-induced waitingfor-bargains becomes a way of life, it's almost impossible to revive an economy.
Times, Sunday Times
robust economy
After inheriting a robust economy, they cannot claim they had no money.
The Sun
Not enough to trigger a recession in a still robust economy.
Times, Sunday Times
Overseas investors need the reassurance that we are a stable, robust economy that doesn't threaten them with high taxes to pay for past spending decisions.
Times, Sunday Times
Credit impairments have remained low thanks to low interest rates and a robust economy.
Times, Sunday Times
We will do so on the solid foundations of a robust economy and public finances well on their way back to good health.
The Sun
rural economy
Then why not consider a job in the rural economy?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Between 1958 and 1961, the rural economy of China was collapsing.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We urge the Chancellor to help the rural economy get back on its feet.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
slowing economy
The slowing economy, lure of high returns and limited alternative investment choices have resulted in countless people being duped by Ponzi schemes.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
As its slowing economy reduces domestic demand for steel, it's been dumping the stuff like crazy.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Profits of 177 million are a meagre return on its sales and the slowing economy will hit it hard.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Although much of the recent statistical evidence has been consistent with a slowing economy, one exception has been consumer spending.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
sluggish economy
Most are convinced they have been dealt a rotten hand: tuition fees, property prices, climate change and a sluggish economy.
Times, Sunday Times
The union also blamed a crackdown on drink-driving and a sluggish economy.
Times, Sunday Times
They worry about keeping up with bills, paying the mortgage and the impact of the sluggish economy on their personal finances.
Times, Sunday Times
Many left because of a sluggish economy, with the unemployment rate at 10 per cent overall, and nearly 25 per cent among the country's youth.
Times, Sunday Times
The airline has been hammered in recent years by rocketing fuel costs, a sluggish economy and higher aviation taxes.
Times, Sunday Times
stable economy
Some investors are even willing to accept lower returns for a more stable economy.
Times,Sunday Times
Labour will soon follow up his speech with a report into creating a more stable economy, insulated from the risks of financial services.
Times, Sunday Times
The days when a strong, stable dollar was believed to mirror a strong, stable economy are over.
Times, Sunday Times
Business needs a stable economy, so it can make its investments without nasty surprises.
The Sun
A stable economy, and a sustainable expansion of demand, would allow businesses and consumers to make longer-term plans.
Times, Sunday Times
stagnant economy
However, the selfmade billionaire and self-described market reformer signally failed to remake the country's stagnant economy.
Times, Sunday Times
The former merchant banker wants to revive the stagnant economy and do away with the sacred 35-hour working week.
Times, Sunday Times
Job losses in the public sector, a stagnant economy and rising house repossessions will all weigh further on the property market.
Times, Sunday Times
Money has been cheap and a stagnant economy has put a premium on companies that are growing.
Times,Sunday Times
A stagnant economy favours those already in work; a period of growth after a recession favours those with experience.
Times, Sunday Times
stimulate an economy
It would make monetary policy far less effective - attempts to stimulate the economy by dropping rates could be ignored by the banks.
ST
A central bank can lower its base interest rate to stimulate an economy with cheaper debt.
Times,Sunday Times
Far better for government to stimulate the economy without spending money, for example by freezing new business regulation and making our labour laws more flexible.
Times, Sunday Times
This reduction in taxes was enacted to stimulate the economy by increasing the take-home pay of millions of workers.
Christianity Today
The pound has fallen sharply in the last few months, which should stimulate the economy by helping exporters.
Times, Sunday Times
strengthen the economy
The plans would also help to strengthen the economy, he claimed.
Times, Sunday Times
If a government helps business by curbing inefficient public spending and improving work incentives, this will genuinely strengthen the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
He called for the euro area's bailout fund to be reinforced and pledged to strengthen the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
Foreign firms strengthen the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
The department strategic goals include preserve infrastructure, optimize mobility, zero fatalities and strengthen the economy.
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strong economy
A by-product of a strong economy and an enviable quality of life.
The Sun (2015)
And we would have a strong economy which did not rely totally on a corrupt banking system and an unsustainable consumer bubble.
The Sun (2009)
Our new economic model for a strong economy is founded on three guiding principles.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
struggling economy
Later he holds a meeting with his economic adviser about his plans to revive the nation's struggling economy.
Times, Sunday Times
The public opinion shift comes as the struggling economy lurches into recovery after five years of misery.
The Sun
They are charging up to 50 per cent less now than a few years ago thanks to the struggling economy and competition from foreign workers.
The Sun
And he pledged to make the country's struggling economy his top priority this year.
The Sun
The music mogul wants to help boost the country's struggling economy by sorting a month-long trip cruising around the islands.
The Sun
sustain the economy
Better yet, the biggest losers of all are those oil-producing states that need high prices to sustain their economies.
Times, Sunday Times
Clear signs are emerging that the twin engines that have sustained the economy in recent years - the high street and the housing market - are feeling the effects.
Times, Sunday Times
Along with reducing emissions, the player must also balance the production and consumption of electricity, water, food and garbage while sustaining the economy.
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Subsequently, with large expansion of sheep farms, this export trade has sustained the economy of the country substantially.
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And since the housing bubble isn't coming back, the spending that sustained the economy in the pre-crisis years isn't coming back either.
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sustainable economy
In the previous parliament, the chancellor hoped to create a more sustainable economy by switching the emphasis from consumer spending to exports and manufacturing.
Times, Sunday Times
We all want a more productive, competitive and environmentally sustainable economy.
Times, Sunday Times
To achieve a sustainable economy world population will have to be reduced by two-thirds, says the study.
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A culture that previously had depended on its environment as a sustainable economy was losing the very land on which they survived.
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The settlement of these individuals made it easier for governments to tax, develop an army, labor force, and create a sustainable economy.
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thriving economy
We understand more about the links between a healthy environment and a healthy society, a thriving environment and a thriving economy.
Times, Sunday Times
Greenhouse gas reductions of 20 per cent would be extremely challenging in a thriving economy.
Times, Sunday Times
A thriving economy will ultimately keep the peace.
The Sun
And for that to happen, the world needs a thriving economy.
The Sun
When these reasonable concerns are pitted against a thriving economy and energy security, the rightful victor should be obvious.
Times, Sunday Times
transform the economy
Over the coming centuries, that single longsighted decision was to transform the economy of the island — and have an equally remarkable effect on its cuisine.
Times, Sunday Times
It might not be a magic wand to transform the economy but, if given enough time to settle down, it could support and streamline development.
Times, Sunday Times
A transition to a more resilient energy system could transform the economy, just as coal did two centuries ago.
Times, Sunday Times
To transform the economy needs foreign investment.
Times, Sunday Times
For more than 200 years since the industrial revolution we have all had to get used to new technologies transforming the economy and the workplace.
The Sun
troubled economy
Large-scale job losses have not yet reached the town, and its range of industries should make it relatively safe in a troubled economy.
Times, Sunday Times
Raising 100 million in a troubled economy was not ideal but also had an encouraging precedent, he said.
Times, Sunday Times
Oil exports have collapsed, down from 2.5 million barrels a day to 400,000, squeezing its already troubled economy.
Times, Sunday Times
An ideal project for our troubled economy?
Times, Sunday Times
The profit from the sold out event helped save the troubled economy of the festival.
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undermine the economy
Strikes harm other businesses and undermine the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
Nurse believes such views undermine science and undermine the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
Many businesses believe that the law will undermine the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
Raising rates of tax will undermine the economy further and lead to lower revenue than we can achieve with competitive rates on earning, investing and saving.
Times, Sunday Times
However, the prime minister and chancellor must understand that their strategy needs to be deliverable and would not undermine the economy.
Times, Sunday Times
vibrant economy
Our challenge is to rebuild that vibrant economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Small businesses are the lifeblood of a vibrant economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The world's most vibrant economies have public sectors closer to 30 % of GDP.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
weak economy
For many people the effects of the weak economy had been felt long before that.
Christianity Today
A strong labour market against the backdrop of a weak economy can mean only one thing: disappointing productivity.
Times, Sunday Times
Some companies are hiring despite the weak economy.
Houston Chronicle
It confirms that we have a very weak economy with the risk of a recession.
Times, Sunday Times
This cannot all be pinned on the weak economy.
Times, Sunday Times
weaken the economy
An increase in interest rates now would 'weaken the economy', she said.
Times, Sunday Times
The numbers also raised fears that draconian cuts, including reductions in public sector wages, were weakening the economy and exacerbating the country's deficit crisis.
Times, Sunday Times
Efforts by policymakers to cool the country's property bubble may also have overshot, weakening the economy further, it said.
Times, Sunday Times
Unless oil states are exceptionally well run, a gush of petroleum revenues can actually weaken their economies by crowding out other business.
Times, Sunday Times
Coronavirus has compromised our social fabric just as much as it has weakened the economy.
Times,Sunday Times
world economy
He said that the world economy was set to power ahead, with annual growth of about 5 per cent.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It was noted that the world economy was continuing to power ahead, with output rising at about 5 per cent a year.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Not that the world economy is a zero-sum game.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Over the past century and a bit, the world economy has lurched around the extremities of this trilemma.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Poor countries that integrated themselves into the world economy were able to industrialise rapidly.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
wreck the economy
The banking crash had wrecked the economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But he didn't wreck the economy with reckless lending.
The Sun (2013)
This collapse of food production has wrecked the whole economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
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