as in profitable
yielding a profit
unfortunately, raising employees' salaries would not be economic—the business would have to fold
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Recent Examples of economic
White House economic advisers have been conducting a review and assessment of BLS data quality and operations in preparation for a report that is expected to be sharply critical of the agency, according to three people familiar with the matter.
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Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
By 2024, City Hall pitched in $10 million toward the $41 million project from a city pool of tax dollars for economic development.
—Mila Koumpilova, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2025
But economic actors are whistling past the graveyard.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Amid the continued Truth tirades and in the face of sky-high U.S. tariffs on Indian goods, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doubling down on courting fellow BRICS Alliance members Russia and China as economic allies.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 2 Sep. 2025
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Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025
By 2024, City Hall pitched in $10 million toward the $41 million project from a city pool of tax dollars for economic development.
—Mila Koumpilova, ProPublica, 9 Sep. 2025
But economic actors are whistling past the graveyard.
—Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Amid the continued Truth tirades and in the face of sky-high U.S. tariffs on Indian goods, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is doubling down on courting fellow BRICS Alliance members Russia and China as economic allies.
—Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for economic
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Kurt Hutson, owner of Rise Academy located north of Dallas in Allen, said 3- and 4-year-old students are the most profitable in terms of the revenue source from their tuition.—
Lina Ruiz
September 8,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
8 Sep. 2025
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Adopt zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) and multiparty computation (MPC) to validate identity attributes without exposing the raw data, making synthetic identity theft less profitable.—
Rohan Pinto,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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Sweet Martha’s, which operates three stands at the fair, is more lucrative than any other food purveyor by a huge margin.—
Hannah Goldfield,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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This designation gives them access to federal benefits intended for rural communities, such as lower thresholds for qualifying for the lucrative 340B Drug Pricing Program and expanded graduate medical education slots.—
Ge Bai,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Economic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/economic. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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