economist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a professional title for an expert in the field of economics

   after spending many years studying the economy of rural China, they were able to land a job as an economist at the World Bank

2. 2
   noun

   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 scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.

3. 3
   noun

   One concerned with political economy.

4. 4
   noun

   One who manages a household.

5. 5
   noun

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

Etymology

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