microeconomics
/ˌmaɪkrəʊiːkəˈnɒmɪks/ noun [U]Definition
› ECONOMICS the part of economics that studies individual markets and businesses, or how individual people spend or earn money: Anyone conversant with basic microeconomics knows that it is covering fixed costs that a firm needs to worry about, not total or variable costs. → Compare macroeconomics
→ See Note economics(Definition of microeconomics noun from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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