economist

• œconomist (archaic)

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

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

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /iːˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/, /ɪˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/, /əˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪˈkɔn.ə.mɪst/

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.

• (one who economizes): economiser, economizer, miser

• economy

• economist on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “economist”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

• comes into, emoticons, mesotocin

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

• IPA^(key): /e.ko.noˈmist/

economist m (plural economiști, feminine equivalent economistă)

1. economist

• “economist”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025