Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Economic means concerned with the organization of the money, industry, and trade of a country, region, or society.
...Poland’s radical ~ reforms...
The pace of ~ growth is picking up.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
~ally
...an ~ally depressed area...
Economically and politically, this affair couldn’t come at a worse time.
ADV: ADV adj/-ed, ADV after v, ADV with cl
2.
If something is ~, it produces a profit.
The new system may be more ~ but will lead to a decline in programme quality.
= profitable
ADJ