economist
English
Alternative forms
- œconomist (archaic)
Etymology
(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) From Middle French économiste (“household manager”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /iːˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /iːˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/, /ɪˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/, /əˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɪˈkɔn.ə.mɪst/
Noun
economist (plural economists)
- An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
- 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
- One concerned with political economy.
- (obsolete) One who manages a household.
- (obsolete) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
Synonyms
- (one who economizes): economiser, economizer, miser
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
expert in economics
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References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “economist”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Anagrams
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French économiste. Compare Russian экономи́ст (ekonomíst).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.ko.noˈmist/
Declension
Declension of economist
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) economist | economistul | (niște) economiști | economiștii |
genitive/dative | (unui) economist | economistului | (unor) economiști | economiștilor |
vocative | economistule | economiștilor |
Related terms
References
- economist in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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