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quant

1 American  
[kwahnt] / kwɑnt /

noun

  1. Business Slang. an expert in quantitative analysis.

Quant 2 American  
[kwahnt] / kwɑnt /

noun

  1. Dame Mary Barbara Mary Quant, 1930–2023, English fashion designer and entrepreneur: often credited as the principal designer of the miniskirt in the 1960s.

quant 1 British  
/ kwɒnt /

noun

  1. a long pole for propelling a boat, esp a punt, by pushing on the bottom of a river or lake

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verb

  1. to propel (a boat) with a quant

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Quant 2 British  
/ kwɒnt /

noun

  1. Mary. born 1934, British fashion designer, whose Chelsea Look of miniskirts and geometrically patterned fabrics dominated London fashion in the 1960s

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quant 3 British  
/ kwɒnt /

noun

  1. informal a highly paid computer specialist with a degree in a quantitative science, employed by a financial house to predict the future price movements of securities, commodities, currencies, etc

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Etymology

Origin of quant

An Americanism dating back to 1985–90; by clipping

Example Sentences

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In the studio and in meetings, Shulman has the restless energy of a kid—pacing around a room or fidgeting with a piano keyboard or bass guitar—combined with the intellectual affect of a quant.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The thinking was to engage finance clubs and quant traders, but we decided to shelve this program to focus on broader brand efforts,” she said.

From The Wall Street Journal

Recently, the Lazard team has been applying a “life cycle score” in its valuation analysis for companies, whereby its quant models value younger companies with more room to grow differently than older, more mature companies.

From Barron's

The same applies to portfolio construction and risk work: News shocks, once exclusive to bespoke quant infrastructure, can be triggered and iterated through natural-language interfaces.

From MarketWatch

A JPMorgan team led by head of U.S. equity quant strategy, Arun Jain, finds that the bulk of investor purchases made by retail investors this year has been in AI stocks, semiconductors and Magnificent Seven companies.

From MarketWatch

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