- a person who studies or writes about economics
- the World Bank's chief economist
- Many economists are predicting the economy will improve.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chief
- leading
- prominent
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent. (originally in the Greek sense): from Greek oikonomos ‘household manager’, from oikonomia ‘household management’, based on oikos ‘house’ + nemein ‘manage’ + -ist. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.Definitions on the go
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