Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
One concerned with political economy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
One who manages a household.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
an expert in the science of economics
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: economic expert
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: social scientist
Narrower terms: econometrician, econometrist, macroeconomist, macroeconomic expert, microeconomist, microeconomic expert, monetarist, Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge, First Baron Beveridge, Friedman, Milton Friedman, Frisch, Ragnar Frisch, Ragnar Anton Kittil Frisch, Galbraith, John Galbraith, John Kenneth Galbraith, Hayek, Friedrich August von Hayek, Jevons, William Stanley Jevons, Keynes, John Maynard Keynes, Koopmans, Tjalling Koopmans, Tjalling Charles Koopmans, Kuznets, Simon Kuznets, Laffer, Arthur Laffer, Leacock, Stephen Leacock, Stephen Butler Leacock, Leontief, Wassily Leontief, Malthus, Thomas Malthus, Thomas Robert Malthus, Marx, Karl Marx, Meade, James Edward Meade, Mill, John Mill, John Stuart Mill, Monnet, Jean Monnet, Myrdal, Gunnar Myrdal, Karl Gunnar Myrdal, Pareto, Vilfredo Pareto, Ricardo, David Ricardo, Schumpeter, Joseph Schumpeter, Joseph Alois Schumpeter, Simon, Herb Simon, Herbert A. Simon, Herbert Alexander Simon, Smith, Adam Smith, Tawney, Richard Henry Tawney, Tinbergen, Jan Tinbergen, Tobin, James Tobin, Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Veblen, Thorstein Veblen, Thorstein Bunde Veblen, Ward, Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth, Webb, Sidney Webb, Sidney James Webb, First Baron Passfield, Woodbury, Helen Laura Sumner Woodbury
History
From Middle French économiste (“household manager”). By surface analysis, economy + -ist.
Across languages
67 source translations are retained for this English entry.
