economist Definition
econo·mist (i kän′ə mist, ē-)
noun
- a specialist in economics
- Archaic an economical or thrifty person
economist Synonyms
economist
n.
economist Usage Examples
Possessives
forecast: Production slipped 0.6 percent, the Federal Reserve reported, a retreat that exceeded economists ' forecasts.
Converse of object
- poll: Almost all the ten City economists polled by the paper believed there would be big tax increases after a third Labor victory.
- lead: But the massive rise in the last two years has led economists to predict a sharp slowdown over the next year or so.
- employ: The idea that they might employ an economist or someone to engage with the community is newer still.
- recruit: We are currently recruiting PhD Economists ( closing date is 30 November 2006 ).
- quote: Having emphasized the British conservative tradition, I should perhaps redress the balance by quoting the great French economist Frederic Bastiat.
- say: Ireland has been named as the place with the highest quality of life in the world, says the Economist.
Adjective modifier
- chief: Martin Ellis, Halifax chief economist, said: " The fall suggests the heat is coming out of the market.
- Keynesian: Left Keynesian economists believe in strong consumer demand, but even Keynesians know you can have too much of a good thing!
- neoclassical: David MacNaughton's paper examined the broadly Humean model of the moral agent that many neoclassical environmental economists typically assume.
- bourgeois: Long before me bourgeois historians had described the historical development of this class struggle and bourgeois economists, the economic anatomy of classes.
- Austrian: The Objectivist worldview can provide a context to the economic insights of the Austrian economists.
- distinguished: Monetary policy has occupied much time of the world's most distinguished economists over the years.
Modifies a noun
magazine: Economist magazine 's resources on Columbia - recent articles and a survey of the country.
Noun used with modifier
- must-reads: The day and must-reads economist and we were transported.
- gillespie: To get a taxi gillespie economist and a piano lounge in calm waters.
- mainstream: What mainstream economists view as ' market failures ' , I view as ' organizational successes ' .
- health: We need some brainy health economists to begin looking at the implications of all this.
- labor: More Information Alana Gilbert is a labor economist working on rural development issues.
- welfare: Let the Government then intervene in the manners sanctioned by the welfare economists to increase competition and thereby drive down prices.
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