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economist

[ ih-kon-uh-mist ]

noun

  1. a specialist in economics.
  2. Archaic. a thrifty or frugal person.


economist

/ ɪˈkɒnəmɪst /

noun

  1. a specialist in economics
  2. archaic.
    a person who advocates or practises frugality


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Word History and Origins

Origin of economist1

First recorded in 1580–90; econom(y) + -ist

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Example Sentences

Why has Michael Bloomberg replaced his longtime lieutenant with the editor-in-chief of The Economist?

Jonathan Gruber, the economist who helped design Romneycare and the Affordable Care Act, falls on his sword before Congress.

Berkeley-based economist Enrico Moretti is also bearish on the future of the region.

The Economist has calculated that it spends $170 billion annually in the United States alone.

The New Yorker, The Economist, and many other media outlets have joined in to jump on Beijing as well.

As a brilliant conversationalist and well-versed political economist he has few rivals in his country.

Prices such as are indicated here were dismissed by the earlier economist as mere economic curiosities.

But it was the labyrinth for which the earlier economist held, so he thought, the thread.

What the economist does is to slip out of the difficulty altogether by begging the whole question.

The high rent of a Broadway store, says the economist, does not add a single cent to the price of the things sold in it.

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