statist

See also: Statist

English

Etymology

state +‎ -ist

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪtɪst/

Noun

statist (plural statists)

1. (archaic) A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence. [from 16th c.]
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:

     Statists and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato is the first Considerable, as though it were their business to deceive the people, as a Maxim, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them [...].

2. (dated) A statistician. [from 19th c.]
3. A supporter of statism. [from 20th c.]

Translations

archaic: a skilled politician

• Catalan: estadista m, f

• Spanish: estadista (es) m, f

statistician — see statistician

supporter of statism

• French: étatiste (fr) m, f

Adjective

statist (comparative more statist, superlative most statist)

1. Pertaining to statism.
   • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 26:

     By the early 1950s, however, the rising expectations for economic growth in the developing world were being dashed by the failure of foreign investment to materialize and by the declining terms of trade in these same raw materials, increasing the appeal of statist solutions.

Translations

related to statism

• French: étatiste (fr)

• German: etatistisch

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

statist m (definite singular statisten, indefinite plural statister, definite plural statistene)

1. supernumerary, walk-on, extra (background actor)

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

statist m (definite singular statisten, indefinite plural statistar, definite plural statistane)

1. an extra (person without a speaking part appearing in a film or play)

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English statist.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stǎtist/

Noun

stàtist m (Cyrillic spelling ста̀тист)

1. an extra (person without a speaking part appearing in a film or play)

Declension

Declension of statist

	singular	plural
nominative	statist	statisti
genitive	statista	statista
dative	statistu	statistima
accusative	statista	statiste
vocative	statiste	statisti
locative	statistu	statisti
instrumental	statistom	statistima

References

• “statist” in Hrvatski jezični portal