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) m. and f. Hungarian: közgazdász (hu) Japanese: 経済学者 (keizai-gakusha), エコノミスト (ekonomisuto) Kurdish: aborînas (ku) m. Polish: ekonomista (pl) m., ekonomistka (pl) f. Spanish: economista (es) m. Thai: นักเศรษฐศาสตร์ (nak-set-tha-sart) (th)

See also

• Economist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• emoticons

References

• “economist” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001