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  quant

  noun

  quantitative analysis.
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  Quant

  noun

  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 American  

[kwahnt] / kwɑnt /

noun

1. quantitative analysis.

2. Business Slang. an expert in quantitative analysis.

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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.

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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

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

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Example Sentences

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“This has the appearance, but not the reality, of common sense,” wrote Cliff Asness of quant firm AQR in a stinging takedown.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026

Also, most top quant funds are closed to new capital.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

Being in the quant club helped propel him to an internship at Susquehanna last summer as a rising senior.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Two picked up tactical trends, while another fundamental indicator went into their more diversified quant macro strategy.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

“At the ratings agencies the corporate credit people are the least bad,” says a quant who engineered mortgage bonds for Morgan Stanley.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

This near-term copper discount relative to further-out futures is between 5% to 6% on an annualized rate, which is historically steep, according to Ilia Bouchouev, director of the Commodities Quant Lab at Carnegie Mellon University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

Quant funds are now the most sought-after category for the first time in its records, a report from Goldman Sachs sales and trading desk found.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 30, 2026

Shirley wears Leeann Huang lenticular dress and shoes, Mary Quant tights and l.a.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

His father worked in a car battery factory, while his mother, a trained teacher in Jamaica, became a seamstress for Mary Quant.

From BBC ● May 25, 2024

Whan we be ydel, we do nat worke: whan we worke, we be Quant nous chommons, nous ne besongnons pas: quant nous besongnons, nous ne nat ydel. chomons pas.

From An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

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