economist

English

Alternative forms

• œconomist (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French économiste (“household manager”)

Noun

economist (plural economists)

1. An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
2. One concerned with political economy.
3. (obsolete) One who manages a household.
4. (obsolete) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.

Synonyms

• (one who economizes): economiser, economizer, miser

Related terms

• economy

Translations

expert in economics

• Armenian: տնտեսագետ (hy) (tntesaget)
• Basque: ekonomista (eu), ekonomialari (eu)
• Catalan: economista (ca) m and f
• Czech: ekonom (cs) m
• Dutch: econoom (nl) c
• Esperanto: ekonomikisto (eo)
• Estonian: majandusteadlane (et)
• Finnish: ekonomisti (fi), taloustieteilijä (fi)
• French: économiste (fr) m
• German: Wirtschaftswissenschaftler (de) m, Ökonom (de) m

• Greek: οικονομολόγος (el) (oikonomológos) m and f
• Hungarian: közgazdász (hu)
• Irish: eacnamaí (ga) m
• Japanese: 経済学者 (keizai-gakusha), エコノミスト (ekonomisuto)
• Kurdish: aborînas (ku) m
• Latvian: ekonomists (lv) m, ekonomiste (lv) f
• Polish: ekonomista (pl) m, ekonomistka (pl) f
• Spanish: economista (es) m
• Thai: นักเศรษฐศาสตร์ (nak-set-tha-sart) ^(th)
• Turkish: ekonomist (tr), iktisatçı (tr)

See also

• Economist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• emoticons

References

• “economist” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).