Reverse Dictionary: ECONOMICAL

ADJECTIVES
► FENDY clever, resourceful, good at managing, economical, thrifty → 1794 Sc. & Eng. dial.

NOUNS
► CACOECONOMY bad economy, bad management → 1819
► CATALLACTICS a proposed name for political economy as the ‘science of exchanges’ → 1831
► CHREMATISTICS the science of the wealth of nations; political economy → 1842
► DOMICULTURE household management; the art of housekeeping, cookery, etc.; domestic economy → 1860
► DOWNER a downward trend in business or the economy → 1976 sl.
► EC economics → 1924 US sl.
► ECCY the study of economics; economics → 1924 US students’ sl.
► ECON economics → 1976 US sl.
► HAG thrift, economy → 1866 Sc.
► HAINING thrift, economy, penuriousness → 1871 Sc.
► MANAGERY ► MENAGERY domestic or agricultural administration or economy → 1633 obs.
► POLLYCON political economy → 20C undergraduates’ sl.
► SAVATION a saving; economy; protection from injury → 1865 Eng. dial.
► SAVE an act of saving; a piece of economy → 1906 Eng. dial.
► TRICKLEDOWN the stimulation of a whole economic system by the enrichment and encouragement of those in the upper reaches → 1944 US sl.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BELT-TIGHTENER a person who tries to reduce his or her expenditure; one hired, elected, or appointed to introduce (rigorous) economies → 1944
► RASPER an impudent, overreaching fellow; a close-fisted, economical person → 19C Eng. dial.
► SPARER a sparing, frugal, economical, or thrifty person; one who spares in using anything → c1440 

VERBS
► BEHUSBAND to economize to the full → 1640 obs.
► CUT AND CONTRIVE to practise economy so as to keep one’s expenses within one’s means → 1876
► GO NEAR HAND to be economical → a1626. obs.
► HAG to manage well, to be economical, to save → 1899 Sc.
► HAIN to husband, to economize, to use sparingly; to save up, to hoard, to lay by → 1737 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SCAMP to be stingy or excessively economical → 1894 US
► SKINCH to scrimp, to economize → 1848 Amer. dial.