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economist (iou)



economist noun. Also (earlier) oeconomist. L16.
[from Greek oikonomos: see ECONOMY, -IST.]
A person who manages a household. L16-M19.
A person who attends to the effective use of resources, esp. money; an advocate or practitioner of economy, a thrifty person. E18.
a. [French economiste.] Hist. A member of an 18th-cent. French philosophical school which advocated adherence to a supposed natural order of social institutions. M18.
b. A believer in or advocate of economism. M20.
An expert in or student of economics. E19.
Phrases: political economist an expert in or student of political economy.