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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

Example Sentences

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After studying computer science and operations research, he interviewed for quant jobs on Wall Street but decided he couldn’t possibly live in New York.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

“Crowding in meme stocks has jumped sharply,” analysts at the world’s biggest bank, led by Arun Jain, U.S. equity quant strategist, wrote in a note on Wednesday.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 23, 2026

Wall Street brings sophisticated quant trading to the masses.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

Overdeck, a mathematician, and Siegel, a computer scientist, met while working at quant hedge-fund pioneer D.E.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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 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

Zach Rodriguez dove in, putting more than $100,000—half his family savings—into coins like Chainlink, Polkadot and Quant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 1, 2025

Quant strategy is a neutral tool, but "in China, it's being used to provide liquidity to the bad guys," he said, referring to listed firms with poor governance.

From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2023

Chimps Robbie and Sebcoe had been born in the park and were "like family" to Jon Quant, who grew up at the zoo after it was opened by his grandfather, Idris Hale.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2023

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