Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

economist

/iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.87 in modern English

Syllables: econ-o-mist
IPA: /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.

noun

One concerned with political economy.

noun

One who manages a household.

Obsolete

noun

One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."

Etymology

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

Origin

Source language: Middle French

Word Breakdown

Root: *weyḱ-, économiste

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/
British English: /ɪˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/

Usage

Obsolete

Inflected Forms

economists (plural) œconomist (alternative, archaic)

Derived Forms

bioeconomist geoeconomist macroeconomist microeconomist neuroeconomist noneconomist pharmacoeconomist socioeconomist thermoeconomist

Phrases

behavioral economist planned economist political economist

Frequently Paired Words

economy

Synonyms

economiser economizer miser economic expert

Rhymes With

agronomist

Questions

How do you pronounce economist?: The recorded pronunciation is /iˈkɑ.nə.mɪst/.
What does economist mean?: An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
Where does economist come from?: It is traced to Middle French.

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