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œconomist

œconomist is the obsolete form of economist.

Meaning of economist

Noun

economist (plural economists)

  1. 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...2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
  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.

Forms of œconomist

pluralœconomists

Questions about œconomist

What is œconomist the obsolete form of?
Œconomist is the obsolete form of economist.

Words near œconomist in the dictionary

  1. œconomically
  2. œconomick
  3. œconomics
  4. œconomies
  5. œconomise
  6. œconomist
  7. œconomists
  8. œconomize
  9. œconomized
  10. œconomizes
  11. œconomizing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: œconomist (page history and authors); economist (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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