{
  "id": "finance.economic",
  "term": "finance",
  "sense": "economic",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "finance",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the use of money and account to get profit",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "money.economic",
      "account.financial",
      "profit.economic",
      "get.acquisition",
      "use.application"
    ],
    "interaction": "money is used with account to get profit",
    "novel_properties": [
      "financial strategy",
      "value tracking over time",
      "acquisition of surplus"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "JPMorgan Chase's 2023 trading algorithms executed 2.7 million transactions to capture arbitrage profits.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2010 Flash Crash saw high-frequency trading systems withdraw liquidity, causing a $1 trillion market value drop in minutes.",
      "domain": "computing"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Panama Canal's lock system uses tolls from ship transits to fund its annual $200 million maintenance budget.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "finance",
    "financed",
    "finances",
    "financing"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'get.acquisition' and 'use.application' to components since they are constitutive in the current definition; no need to rewrite definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-finance.economic"
}