MICROECONOMICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does microeconomics mean? 

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

1. the branch of economics that studies the economy of consumers or households or individual firms

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MICROECONOMICS (noun)

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Meaning:

The branch of economics that studies the economy of consumers or households or individual firms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("microeconomics" 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:

microeconomist (an economist who specializes in microeconomics)