chartist

[ chahr-tist ]

/ ˈtʃɑr tɪst /

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noun

a specialist in the stock market who studies and draws charts of trading actions.

a cartographer.

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Origin of chartist

First recorded in 1960–65; chart + -ist

Words nearby chartist

Charter of Rights, charter party, charter school, chart house, Chartism, chartist, chartless, chartlet, chartography, chartophylacium, chartophylax

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How to use chartist in a sentence

In the Chartist riots of 1839, the people tore up the railings round the churchyard to use as pikes.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
But it has gradually attached itself to an advanced Radical programme of a Chartist description.
Letters from America|Rupert Brooke
A successful Chartist revolt would at once send the whole free trade and fettered currency measures by the board in three months.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 393, July 1848|Various
Gerard became a marked man in the Chartist Convention, a member of a small but resolute committee.
The World's Greatest Books, Vol III|Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.

The great Chartist who, having been tried and sentenced to transportation, had been sent to Bermuda in May, 1848.
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II|Thomas Lord Cochrane

British Dictionary definitions for chartist

chartist

/ (ˈtʃɑːtɪst) /

noun

a stock market specialist who analyses and predicts market trends from graphs of recent price and volume movements of selected securities

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