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analyst Definition

ana·lyst (an′ə list)

noun

  1. a person who analyzes a news analyst
  2. a psychoanalyst
  3. a systems analyst

Etymology: Fr analyste

analyst Synonyms

analyst

n.

  1. Examiner

    questioner, investigator, inquisitor, interpreter; see critic 2, examiner.

  2. Psychoanalyst

    psychiatrist, neuropsychiatrist, psychotherapist; see psychoanalyst.

analyst Finance Definition

An employee of a sell-side firm (a Wall Street broker), a buy-side firm (a mutual fund or investment management company), or an independent research firm that makes buy and sell recommendations on companies in a particular industry. Analysts also are employed by companies involved in commodities trading to recommend when customers should buy and sell futures contracts and suggest appropriate trading strategies.
analyst Usage Examples

Possessives

  • notebook: Enhance your skills with regard to both the analytical and visual aspects of i2 Analyst's Notebook.
  • forecast: The results were at the bottom end of analysts ' forecasts.
  • expectation: Revenues of 3.7 million EUR were in line with the analysts ' expectations.

Converse of object

  • recruit: The unit has now recruited an analyst who will join the unit in October.
  • appoint: In addition, the funds have been used to appoint an Admissions Analyst.

Adjective modifier

  • Senior: Senior market analyst James McCoy said manufacturers had not acted quickly enough to keep ahead of the sales decline.
  • Jungian: Marion Woodman is a Jungian analyst in practice in Toronto.
  • i2: Enhance your skills with regard to both the analytical and visual aspects of i2 Analyst 's Notebook.
  • senior: Mintel senior market analyst Julie Sloan said mint sweets were suffering an image problem.
  • experienced: We are now looking to appoint an experienced analyst to provide robust financial input into our work.
  • numerical: Archimedes the Numerical Analyst Here we summarize the main points in the paper by Phillips with the above title.

Modifies a noun

  • programmer: Support and provide feedback to project managers, analyst programmers, testers and business representatives.
  • forecast: SAP trimmed its 2002 sales forecast after posting preliminary second-quarter results well short of analyst forecasts.
  • firm: Analyst firm Yankee Group predicts that by 2008 prepaid mobile users will make up 57 percent of all mobile subscribers worldwide.

Noun used with modifier

  • sell-side: The role will involve extensive interaction with buy and sell-side analysts and investors as well as senior management and the internal Corporate Affairs department.
  • intelligence: The report does note a minority of intelligence analysts believes the tubes are for conventional weapons, not a nuclear program.
  • equity: Equity analyst with up one simple to settle the.
  • telecoms: According to telecoms analysts BWCS, 625 million people worldwide will be traveling on wi-fi enabled trains within the next five years.
  • programmer: Programmer Analyst Cambridge University Press is seeking a Programmer Analyst for its West Nyack Office located in Rockland County, New York.
  • defense: Defense analysts argued that British soldiers in the area were facing an increasing threat.
analyst Quotes

Asthe strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.

—Poe, EdgarAllan