MACROECONOMICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does macroeconomics mean? 

• MACROECONOMICS (noun)
  The noun MACROECONOMICS has 1 sense:

1. the branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy

  Familiarity information: MACROECONOMICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MACROECONOMICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of economics that studies the overall working of a national economy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("macroeconomics" is a kind of...):

economic science; economics; political economy (the branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management)

Derivation:

macroeconomic (of or relating to macroeconomics)

macroeconomist (an economist who specializes in macroeconomics)