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economist Definition

econo·mist (i känə mist, ē-)

noun

  1. a specialist in economics
  2. Archaic an economical or thrifty person

economist Synonyms

economist

n.

statistician, business analyst, financial expert, efficiency expert, student of business, specialist in economics, political economist, economic thinker, social planner, economic reformer, economic theorist, banker, professor, political scientist, Keynesian, supply-sider, physiocrat, brain truster*.

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.