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  1. suffix One that performs a specified action: lobbyist.
  2. suffix One that produces, makes, operates, plays, or is connected with a specified thing: novelist.
  3. suffix A specialist in a specified art, science, or skill: biologist.
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  1. Middle English -iste, from Old French, from Latin -istēs, -ista, from Greek -istēs, agent n. suff.
 

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