macroeconomic
adjective
Simple meaning
About the entire economy, including the growth rate, money and credit, exchange rates, the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
mækɹoʊɛkəˈnɑmɪk
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Definition
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adjective
Relating to the entire economy, including the growth rate, money and credit, exchange rates, the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices.
Of or relating to macroeconomics
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- B2 · Upper Intermediate (estimated)
- Frequency
- Moderately Common
- Typical Use
- Neutral / general English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
This meaning: Relating to the entire economy, including the growth rate, money and credit, exchange rates, the total amount of goods and services produced, total income earned, the level of employment of productive resources, and the general behavior of prices.
Used this way, macroeconomic is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. It turns up most in business or professional contexts.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- No strong connotation
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Business/professional
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Inflected forms
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The branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy.
Compound terms
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An economist who specializes in macroeconomics.
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