What are these?

The Economist includes helpful explanations in its articles when a term might be unfamilar to readers. We've compiled a glossary of the terms defined in recent articles.

You can search for glossary terms, or let it pick a set at random.

Some of these make no sense

The script that collects the glossary sometimes guesses wrong. Click the link to the article to see what it actually said.

Is this legal?

We think that it qualifies as fair use, so yes.

49,852 definitions from 19,860 articles