----------- １．经济 --------------------(1).与一定社会生产力相适应的社会生产关系，或适应于一定社会生产力发展的社会经济制度。(2).指物质资料的生产，以及相应的交换、分配、消费。(3).一个国家国民经济的总称,或国民经济的各部门。(4).日常生活用语中指节约、节省；个人或家庭的收支状况等。现代西方语言中的经济一词，是来源于希腊文oikonomia，原义是家庭管理的意思。始见于古希腊历史学家、作家色诺芬的《经济论》一书。具体对于词源的说明如下：Managing an economy has at least an etymological justification. The word economycan probably be traced back to the Greek word oikonomos, “one who manages a household,”derived from oikos, “house,” and nemein, “to manage.” From oikonomos was derived oikonomia, which had not only the sense “management of a houseold or family” but also senses such as “thrift,” “direction,” “administration,” “arrangement,” and “public revenue of a state.” The first recorded sense of our word economy, found in a work possibly composed in 1440, is “the management of economic affairs,” in this case, of a monastery. conomyis later recorded in other senses shared by oikonomia in Greek, including “thrift” and “administration.” What is probably our most frequently used current sense, “the economic system of a country or an area,” seems not to have developed until the 19th or 20th century.管理经济可以从词源上得到确认。 economy一词的来源很可能追溯到希腊文中的 oikonomos即“管家”，这又是从 oikos意为“房子”，以及 nemein意为“管理”两词演化而来。从 oikonomos派生出的 oikonomia意思不仅有“家庭管理”，而且有“节约”、“指示”、 “行政”、“安排”及“国家岁入”等含义。 Economy这个词的意思最早记载在约1440年出版的一篇作品上，意思是僧院的“经济事件管理”。 Economy在此之后记载下来的意思与希腊语的 oikonomia有相似之处，包括“节约”和“行政”， 直到19世纪或20世纪，今天最常用的意思才开始出现，即“国家或地区的经济体系”.

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