statist

See also: Statist

English

Etymology

From state +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪtɪst/
• Rhymes: -eɪtɪst

Noun

statist (plural statists)

1. A supporter of statism. [from 20th c.]
2. (dated) A statistician. [from 19th c.]
3. (archaic) A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence. [from 16th c.]
   • 1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

     [O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, chapter I, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 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 […] .

Translations

supporter of statism

• Finnish: etatisti, statisti (fi)
• French: étatiste (fr) m or f
• German: Etatist m, Etatistin f

statistician — see statistician

archaic: a skilled politician

• Catalan: estadista (ca) m or f
• Spanish: estadista (es) m or f

Adjective

statist (comparative more statist, superlative most statist)

1. Pertaining to statism.
   • 2006 January, David Garcia, “Learning the Right Lessons”, in Mute‎^[1], →ISSN:

     It was as if the Samizdat spirit, extended and intensified by the proliferation of do-it-yourself media, had rendered the centralised, statist tyrannies of the Soviet Union untenable.

   • 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.

   • 2009 March 31, Jonathan Freedland, “Jonathan Freedland: Where is the new JFK we expected? He's stuck in a rut with Gordon Brown”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Instead, he [Barack Obama] and [Gordon] Brown stand together, supposedly the representatives of Anglo-American turbocapitalism, struggling to push the statist French and Germans—and this is the bit that was in nobody's script—leftward.

   • 2010 April 17, David Cameron, “This is a radical revolt against the statist approach of Big Government”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     This is why the Conservative programme for government is founded on such a radical revolt against the statist approach of the Big Government that always knows best.

Translations

related to statism

• Finnish: etatistinen, statistinen (fi), valtiojohtoinen (fi)
• French: étatiste (fr)
• German: etatistisch

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

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

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

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)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English statist.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /stǎtist/

Noun

stàtist m (Cyrillic spelling ста̀тист, indeclinable)

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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Swedish

Noun

statist c

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

Declension

Declension of statist

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	statist	statists
	definite	statisten	statistens
plural	indefinite	statister	statisters
	definite	statisterna	statisternas