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Economic Marriage

When two people stay together in a marriage because they can't afford to divorce in today's economy. They can't sell the house in this market, and can't afford their own housing, insurance, so they stay legally married, in the same house, but live their own lives.
John and Stacy are both back on the market, but they're stuck in an Economic Marriage.
by Killian77 January 31, 2009
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economic moat

"Economic moat" is a term coined by investor Warren Buffet. It means how susceptible a company is to competition by other companies. Coca-Cola and Phillip Morris (Marlboro cigarettes) are companies with wide economic moats because of the popularity and consumer loyalty of their marquee brands. Boeing has a narrow but deep economic moat because its 777 and 787 aircraft are not subject to immediate displacement, but companies like Airbus and Bombardier could play catch-up over the course of several years by developing similar models that would threaten their primacy. That would close the moat.
-- "Give me an example of a company with a wide economic moat."

-- "The local water company, because no competitor can rush right in with a distribution system (pipes)."

-- "Besides, who else is gonna fill that moat? lol."
by al-in-chgo May 3, 2013
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Econ

The class that makes all seniors in high school want to kill themselves.
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Economy Monkey

A person who exists only as a cog in the capitalist economy that drives the US, often having no true free will.
I can’t believe you invested in the stock market you economy monkey!
by MooMooMalone March 4, 2021
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Connecticut Economy

The economic system which consists of three components: Communism, fascism, and extreme cronyism.
Person No. 1: O.K. so you worked your ass off for 16 years, you paid everything you made in state and local taxes, you put up with all of the verbal abuse, you did all of their work for them, and yet somehow you ended up with nothing to show for it. How come?

Person No. 2: I was working under a Connecticut economy system; I got exactly what I deserved.
by What I Am October 1, 2012
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The economy is booming

(Often used by greedy Republicans)

When the “economy” is booming, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. People work more than one job because too much of capitalism has driven them to need to and then the data reports to the immoral, avaricious politicians that the unemployment rate has plummeted. The lower classes don’t get enough money to consistently be financially sound for contributing all their hard work to the sake of this country run by idiots.
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encoding

That thing that takes fucking ages before your disk is actually burned.
Dude, like how long is that disk gonna take?
by jadore June 4, 2005
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