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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

wirtschaftlich sinnvoll

Pronunciation / Transliteration: vɪʁtschaftlɪç zɪnsvɔl

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Economically sound/ˌiː.kəˈnɒm.ɪ.kli saʊnd/
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Das Projekt erwies sich als wirtschaftlich sinnvoll."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Financially viable and capable of generating sufficient returns or stability to justify the cost over the long term.

    "The committee concluded that the proposed infrastructure project was economically-sound."
  2. 2

    Based on solid financial principles and careful fiscal planning without excessive risk.

    "To attract investors, the startup needed to present an economically-sound business model."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the combination of 'economic' (from Greek oikonomikos, pertaining to household management) and 'sound' (from Old English gesund, meaning healthy or safe). Together, the phrase evolved in modern financial and policy discourse to describe fiscal practices that are robust, stable, and logically defensible.

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