economic

économique

Qui concerne l’argent, le commerce, l’emploi et la production et l’utilisation des biens dans un pays.

En anglais simple : Connected with money, trade, jobs, and how a country produces and uses goods.

• The country faces economic problems.
• Economic growth has created more jobs.
• How will these economic changes affect small businesses?

Expressions courantes : economic growth, economic policy, economic crisis, economic development

rentable

Qui rapporte ou économise assez d’argent pour valoir la peine d’être fait.

En anglais simple : Earning or saving enough money to make an activity worth doing.

• The mine is no longer economic.
• Higher fuel prices made the service less economic.
• Would it be economic to repair the old equipment?

Comment l'utiliser : economic to do something (It is no longer economic to operate this factory.)

Synonymes : profitable, cost-effective, viable

Contraires : uneconomic, unprofitable

Expressions courantes : economic production, economic operation, remain economic