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

Word History and Origins

Origin of economist¹

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

Example Sentences

Investment gurus typically think of the rational retail investor as the kind of creature dreamed up by the economist Benjamin Graham.

From Quartz

Which brings us to everyone’s favorite villain economist, Larry Summers.

From Time

Draghi is an adept economist who’s been called on to get the bel paese out of all manner of crises over the years, usually by selling assets to get the country out of some financial hole.

From Fortune

Some economists estimate that the pandemic will cause the gender wage gap to widen by five percentage points.

From Fortune

Most economists support giving more relief to Americans who are struggling to put food on the table or keep their small business from closing.

From Washington Post

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg