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economists

economists is the plural 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.

Phrases with economists

Questions about economists

What is economists the plural of?
Economists is the plural of economist.

Words near economists in the dictionary

  1. economising
  2. economism
  3. economisms
  4. economist
  5. economistic
  6. economists
  7. Economite
  8. Economites
  9. economization
  10. economizations
  11. economize

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