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economist
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun economist has 1 sense
- economist(n = noun.person) economic expert - an expert in the science of economics; Array is a member of economics profession
has particulars: econometrician, econometrist, macroeconomic expert, macroeconomist, microeconomic expert, microeconomist, monetarist, beveridge, first baron beveridge, william henry beveridge, friedman, milton friedman, frisch, ragnar anton kittil frisch, ragnar frisch, galbraith, john galbraith, john kenneth galbraith, friedrich august von hayek, hayek, jevons, william stanley jevons, john maynard keynes, keynes, koopmans, tjalling charles koopmans, tjalling koopmans, kuznets, simon kuznets, arthur laffer, laffer, leacock, stephen butler leacock, stephen leacock, leontief, wassily leontief, malthus, thomas malthus, thomas robert malthus, karl marx, marx, james edward meade, meade, john mill, john stuart mill, mill, jean monnet, monnet, gunnar myrdal, karl gunnar myrdal, myrdal, pareto, vilfredo pareto, david ricardo, ricardo, joseph alois schumpeter, joseph schumpeter, schumpeter, herb simon, herbert a. simon, herbert alexander simon, simon, adam smith, smith, richard henry tawney, tawney, jan tinbergen, tinbergen, james tobin, tobin, anne robert jacques turgot, turgot, thorstein bunde veblen, thorstein veblen, veblen, barbara ward, baroness jackson of lodsworth, ward, first baron passfield, sidney james webb, sidney webb, webb, helen laura sumner woodbury, woodbury
is a kind of social scientist
Derived forms noun economy2, noun economy1
CIDE DICTIONARY
economist, n. [Cf. F. économiste.].
- One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste. Burke. [1913 Webster]
- One who is conversant with political economy; an expert in the field of economics. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
economist, n.
1 an expert in or student of economics.
2 a person who manages financial or economic matters.
1 an expert in or student of economics.
2 a person who manages financial or economic matters.
Etymology
Gk oikonomos (as ECONOMY) + -IST
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