Economist
[ɪ'kɒnəmɪst] or [ɪ'kɑnəmɪst]
Definition
(n.) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
(n.) One who is conversant with political economy; a student of economics.
Edited by Cathryn
Examples
- This economist is a winter fool. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But he felt this as an economist merely, and not as a lover. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I know an economist who has a scheme for keeping down the population by refusing very poor people a marriage license. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If he was an economist, he generally found it more profitable to employ his annual savings in new purchases than in the improvement of his old estate. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was the British economist. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Lying there he thought of the economist and laughed, and then felt sorry he had been rude. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Some economist ought therefore to give us a treatise in which this property instinct is carefully and quantitatively examined. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The last time he had been at Gaylord's Karkov had been wonderful about a certain British economist who had spent much time in Spain. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- However I know so little about strikes, and rate of wages, and capital, and labour, that I had better not talk to a political economist like you. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They have for some years past made a pretty considerable sect, distinguished in the French republic of letters by the name of the Economists. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The orthodox economists are in the unenviable position of having taken their morals from the exploiter and of having translated them into the grandiloquent language of high public policy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We have had economists who set out with the preconceived idea of justifying the factory system. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Both the Encyclop?dists and the various Economists and Physiocrats demanded a considerable amount of hard thinking in their disciples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- That was the nauseating method of nineteenth century economists when they tried to identify the brutal practices of capitalism with the beneficence of nature and the Will of God. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typed by Deirdre