Economist

Quick meaning: Economist is a noun meaning An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.

Meaning

An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.

More Meanings

1. One concerned with political economy.
2. (obsolete) One who manages a household.
3. (obsolete) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.

Example Sentences

The formula, which AEI economists said had “no foundation in either economic theory or trade law,” instead wrongly incorporated the elasticity for retail prices. […] However, certainty is anything but a sure thing these days, and the bread-and-butter of the US economy might not go unscathed, said RSM economist Brusuelas.

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

Word Forms

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Synonyms for economist

Depending on context, synonyms include economiser, economizer, miser.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include economic, economy, economics, analyst, expert, econometrist.

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