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Malthus
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Malthus has 1 sense
- malthus(n = noun.person) thomas malthus, thomas robert malthus - an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834); Array is a kind of economic expert, economist
Derived form adjective malthusian1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Malthus, prop. n.
Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834). [WordNet 1.5]
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