Economics term; economically independent decision maker, such as a private household or a company.
1 The village is still almost self-sufficing, and is in itself an economic unit .
2 As a policy this denies the existence of the family as an economic unit .
3 Carbon intensity How much fossil fuels you have to burn to produce an economic unit .
4 The high priest of protection himself invented a phrase " economic unit " to express North America.
5 And may I remind you, no one voted to leave the EU to join a second-best European economic unit ?
6 The planet was now a delicately organized economic unit , and big business in all lands was emphatically contemptuous of patriotism.
7 However deep the political divisions, few would contest the view that Ireland made sense as a single economic unit , she said.
8 Marriage is, if you look at the law, is a way of recognizing and treating a family as an economic unit .
9 Boarding school-educated politicians talk about the importance of parenting and make policy that treats every adult as a taxpaying economic unit .
10 As time goes on, the new euro zone consisting of the 11 EMU countries, will be increasingly viewed as a single economic unit .
11 For the country as a whole, considered as a social and economic unit , a long war will introduce an era of astounding prosperity.
12 The figures, compiled by the IFA's economic unit , also show income from part-time farming this year will be only €13,000.
13 We need managed migration, but people are not just economic units .
14 Human attention is needed-anhonourable effort to solve the problem of making these Russians self - supporting economic units .
15 Immigrants working in the State are being treated more like economic units than people, seminar delegates were told today.
16 Bush was criticised about it for years, accused of reducing citizens to little more than economic units at a time of crisis.
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