Pareto

[ pah-re-taw ]

/ pɑˈrɛ tɔ /

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noun

Vil·fre·do

[veel-fre-daw], /vilˈfrɛ dɔ/, 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist in Switzerland.

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parepididymis, parera, parergon, paresis, paresthesia, Pareto, pareu, pareunia, parev, pareve, par excellence

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How to use Pareto in a sentence

Comparative historians like Spengler, Pareto and Toynbee realized that history did not merely happen but had some kind of pattern.
The Sensitive Man|Poul William Anderson
In this work the researches of Italian writers, such as Pantaleoni and Pareto, are of conspicuous importance.
The New Gresham Encyclopedia|Various
Now no quantity of value, irrespective of the particular holder of the good, emerges for Pareto.
Social Value|B. M. Anderson
The extreme abstraction of the utility school is made very clear by Pareto, op.
Social Value|B. M. Anderson

Mazzini hid in the house of the Marquis Pareto, and was undiscovered, although the police made a prolonged search for him.
Builders of United Italy|Rupert Sargent Holland

British Dictionary definitions for Pareto

Pareto

/ (Italian paˈrɛːto) /

noun

Vilfredo (vilˈfreːdo). 1848–1923, Italian sociologist and economist. He anticipated Fascist principles of government in his Mind and Society (1916)

(modifier) denoting a law, mathematical formula, etc, originally used by Pareto to express the frequency distribution of incomes in a society

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