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

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026

Fading investor momentum has left quant funds as the stock market’s main support, and that leaves a year-end rally highly dependent on oil prices, according to Barclays.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

“For individual investors, this is a real breakthrough,” said Irene Aldridge, an engineer and former quant trader who now researches the intersection of AI and financial markets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026

A rush of retail investors and quant funds has caused a shift toward more borrowed money and more short-term trading.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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

Quant trading firm Jump Trading recently launched a trading desk for computing power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 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

Quant infans fud, donc a ciels temps al rei lo duistrent soi parent, qui donc regnevet a ciel di: cio fud Lothiers fils Baldequi. il le amat; deu lo covit; rovat que litteras apresist.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

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