|
|
Definition of Economist
1. Noun. An expert in the science of economics.
Group relationships: Economics Profession
Specialized synonyms: Econometrician, Econometrist, Macroeconomic Expert, Macroeconomist, Microeconomic Expert, Microeconomist, Monetarist
Generic synonyms: Social Scientist
Specialized synonyms: Beveridge, First Baron Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, Friedman, Milton Friedman, Frisch, Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Ragnar Frisch, Galbraith, John Galbraith, John Kenneth Galbraith, Friedrich August Von Hayek, Hayek, Jevons, William Stanley Jevons, John Maynard Keynes, Keynes, Koopmans, Tjalling Charles Koopmans, Tjalling Koopmans, Kuznets, Simon Kuznets, Arthur Laffer, Laffer, Leacock, Stephen Butler Leacock, Stephen Leacock, Leontief, Wassily Leontief, Malthus, Thomas Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus, Karl Marx, Marx, James Edward Meade, Meade, John Mill, John Stuart Mill, Mill, Jean Monnet, Monnet, Gunnar Myrdal, Karl Gunnar Myrdal, Myrdal, Pareto, Vilfredo Pareto, David Ricardo, Ricardo, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Joseph Schumpeter, Schumpeter, Herb Simon, Herbert A. Simon, Herbert Alexander Simon, Simon, Adam Smith, Smith, Richard Henry Tawney, Tawney, Jan Tinbergen, Tinbergen, James Tobin, Tobin, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Turgot, Thorstein Bunde Veblen, Thorstein Veblen, Veblen, Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson Of Lodsworth, Ward, First Baron Passfield, Sidney James Webb, Sidney Webb, Webb, Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury, Woodbury
Derivative terms: Economy, Economy
Definition of Economist
1. n. One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
Definition of Economist
1. Noun. An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories. ¹
2. Noun. One concerned with political economy. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) One who manages a household. ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Economist
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Economist
Literary usage of Economist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"At least, that 's what I make of FAWCETT. Third Political economist ...
What's happening to that t Second Political economist (slightly nettled). ..."
2. Surveys, Historic and Economic by William James Ashley (1900)
"Having seen what the facts are in the case of the sugar combine, let us try to
see how they might present themselves to an economist. ..."
3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1900)
"C economist. Tijdschrift voor alle standen, tot bevordering van ... Weekly, v.
i has title: The economist or the Political, Agricultural and Free-Trade ..."
4. The Works and Life of Walter Bagehot by Walter Bagehot, Mrs Russell Barrington (1915)
""THE economist" BAGEHOT was sworn in as Justice of the Peace for the County of
Somerset at the Epiphany Session held at Taunton, and on 18th January, 1861, ..."
5. Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall (1895)
"... the inquiries of the English economist at the present time, though they do
not lie wholly within the range of his science. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"CHALMERS AS POLITICAL economist. THERE are few writers on political economy whose
works we remember to have perused with more pleasure, attention, ..."
Other Resources:
Basque