Definition of Economical

Economical

Pertaining to the household; domestic.

Relating to domestic economy, or to the management of household affairs.

Managing with frugality; guarding against waste or unnecessary expense; careful and frugal in management and in expenditure; -- said of character or habits.

Managed with frugality; not marked with waste or extravagance; frugal; -- said of acts; saving; as, an economical use of money or of time.

Relating to the means of living, or the resources and wealth of a country; relating to political economy; as, economic purposes; economical truths.

Regulative; relating to the adaptation of means to an end.

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Economical Quotations

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.
Emily Dickinson

In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother's distress.
Gene Tierney

Physics is experience, arranged in economical order.
Ernst Mach

Each reform, therefore, improving the economical and political situation of the workers proves to be an arm that increases the energy with which the proletarian struggle of classes is fought.
Clara Zetkin

When I'm shooting on location, you get ideas on the spot - new angles. You make not major changes but important modifications, that you can't do on a set. I do that because you have to be economical.
Satyajit Ray

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
Ibrahim Rugova

If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us.
Kerry King

Working on the themes I was interested in, through the context of a particular family, was a very economical way of dealing with a lot of the issues I was concerned with.
Atom Egoyan

Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
Theodore Sturgeon

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
Christian Lous Lange

It is imperative for the health and safety of millions of workers that we ensure that breathing systems needed for protection are widely available, convenient and economical.
Bill Shuster

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.
Leslie Charteris

There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
Ian Williams

We're at unique point in history where the things that we are building are going to significantly impact our social, political, economical, and personal lives.
Anita Borg

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.
Lillian Gordy Carter

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Economical Translations

economical in Afrikaans is ekonomies
economical in Dutch is economisch
economical in Latin is parcus, insumptuosus
economical in Swedish is sparsam, ekonomisk, ekonomisk, sparsam

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