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economist

/ɪˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/ UK
/iːˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/ UK
/iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/ US, dialectal
/ɪˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/ US, dialectal
/əˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/ US, dialectal
/ɪˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/ Canada, dialectal
/iˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/ Canada, dialectal
/ɪˈkɔn.ə.mɪst/ Australia
/əˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/ New Zealand
[əˈkɔ̟n.ə.mɪst] New Zealand

Where it comes from

From Middle French économiste (“household manager”). By surface analysis, economy + -ist.

noun economists · œconomist

An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories. 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 s
One concerned with political economy.
obsolete One who manages a household.
obsolete One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
Similar: economiser, economizer, miser

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: economic expert, economic, economy, economics, analyst, expert, galbraith, friedman, economic analyst, econometrist, political economist, econometrician, microeconomist, macroeconomist, œconomist, macroeconometrician

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noun expert in economics

Español	economista
한국어	경제학자 gyeongjehakja
日本語	経済学者 keizai-gakusha, エコノミスト ekonomisuto
中文	經濟學家 /经济学家 jīngjì xuéjiā
Kiswahili	mchumi
Português	economista
Français	économiste
Deutsch	Ökonom, Volkswirt, Wirtschaftswissenschaftler, Volkswirtschaftler
Italiano	economista
Ελληνικά	οικονομολόγος oikonomológos
Русский	экономи́ст ekonomíst, экономи́стка ekonomístka
Tiếng Việt	nhà kinh tế học
العربية	اِقْتِصَادِيّ iqtiṣādiyy

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@misc{economist_2026,
  title = {economist},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/economist},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}