📒 connected with the trade, industry and development of wealth of a country, an area or a society
They discussed social, economic and political issues.
economic growth/development
the worst economic crisis since the war
📒 producing enough profit to continue
The college was not achieving the numbers of students needed to make it economic.
it is economic to do something They found it was not economic to sell their milk to the supermarkets.
it is economic for somebody/something to do something It's simply not economic for these small farmers to start buying large amounts of expensive fertilizer.