economist

English

Alternative forms

• œconomist (archaic)

Etymology

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) From Middle French économiste (“household manager”). By surface analysis, economy +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/, /iːˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/

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• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/, /ɪˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/, /əˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/
• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ɪˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/, /iˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪˈkɔn.ə.mɪst/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /əˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/, [əˈkɔ̟n.ə.mɪst]

Noun

economist (plural economists)

1. An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
   • 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

     Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

   • 2025 April 9, Alicia Wallace, “The next round of Trump’s tariffs could hurt even more. Here’s what to expect”, in CNN Business‎^[1]:

     The formula, which AEI economists said had “no foundation in either economic theory or trade law,” instead wrongly incorporated the elasticity for retail prices. […] However, certainty is anything but a sure thing these days, and the bread-and-butter of the US economy might not go unscathed, said RSM economist Brusuelas.

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

Derived terms

• behavioral economist
• bioeconomist
• geoeconomist
• macroeconomist
• microeconomist
• neuroeconomist
• noneconomist
• pharmacoeconomist
• planned economist
• political economist
• socioeconomist
• thermoeconomist

Related terms

• economy

Translations

expert in economics

• Afrikaans: ekonoom
• Arabic: اِقْتِصَادِيّ m (iqtiṣādiyy)
• Armenian: տնտեսագետ (hy) (tntesaget)
• Azerbaijani: iqtisadçı
• Basque: ekonomista (eu), ekonomialari (eu)
• Catalan: economista m or f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 經濟學家 / 经济学家 (zh) (jīngjì xuéjiā)

• Cornish: erbysydh m, erbysydhes f
• Czech: ekonom (cs) m
• Danish: økonom c
• Dutch: econoom (nl) c
• Esperanto: ekonomikisto
• Estonian: majandusteadlane
• Finnish: ekonomisti (fi), taloustieteilijä (fi)
• French: économiste (fr) m
• Galician: economista (gl) m or f
• Georgian: ეკონომისტი (eḳonomisṭi)
• German: Ökonom (de) m, Volkswirt m, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler (de) m, Volkswirtschaftler m
• Greek: οικονομολόγος (el) m or f (oikonomológos)
• Hungarian: közgazdász (hu)
• Indonesian: ekonom (id)
• Irish: eacnamaí m, geilleagraí m
• Italian: economista (it) m or f
• Japanese: 経済学者 (ja) (keizai-gakusha), エコノミスト (ja) (ekonomisuto)
• Korean: 경제학자 (ko) (gyeongjehakja)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: aborînas (ku) m

• Latvian: ekonomists m, ekonomiste f
• Māori: kaiahupūtea, mātanga ōhanga
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: økonom (no) m

  Nynorsk: økonom m

• Persian: اقتصاددان (eqtesâd-dân)
• Polish: ekonomista (pl) m, ekonomistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: economista (pt) m or f
• Russian: экономи́ст (ru) m (ekonomíst), экономи́стка (ru) f (ekonomístka)
• Serbo-Croatian: ekonomista (sh) m
• Spanish: economista (es) m or f
• Swahili: mchumi (sw)
• Swedish: ekonom (sv) c
• Tagalog: dalub-agimat
• Tajik: иқтисоддон (iqtisoddon)
• Thai: นักเศรษฐศาสตร์ (nák-sèet-tà-sàat)
• Turkish: ekonomist (tr), iktisatçı (tr)
• Turkmen: ykdysatçy
• Ukrainian: економі́ст (uk) m (ekonomíst), економі́стка f (ekonomístka)
• Urdu: معاشیات دان (mu'āśiyāt-dān), اقتصادیات دان (iqtisādiyāt-dān), ماہر معاشیات (māhir-e-mu'āśiyāt), ماہر اقتصادیات (māhir-e-iqtisādiyāt)
• Uyghur: ئىقتىسادچى (iqtisadchi)
• Uzbek: iqtisodchi (uz)
• Vietnamese: nhà kinh tế học
• Welsh: economegydd m
• Yakut: экэнэмиис (ekenemiis)

See also

• economist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “economist”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Anagrams

• comes into, emoticons, mesotocin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French économiste. Compare Russian экономи́ст (ekonomíst).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.ko.noˈmist/

Noun

economist m (plural economiști, feminine equivalent economistă)

1. economist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	economist	economistul	economiști	economiștii
genitive-dative	economist	economistului	economiști	economiștilor
vocative	economistule		economiștilor

Related terms

• econom
• economic
• economicesc
• economicește
• economicitate
• economicos
• economie
• economisi
• economisire
• economisitor
• economism

References

• “economist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026