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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A specialist in economics.
  2. n. Archaic An economical person.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One who manages pecuniary or other resources; a manager in general, with reference to means and expenditure or outlay.
  2. n. Specifically A careful or prudent manager of pecuniary means; one who practises frugality in expenditure: as, he has the reputation of being an economist; he is a rigid economist.
  3. n. One versed in economics, or the science of political economy.
  4. n. An officer in some cathedrals of the Church of Ireland who is appointed by the chapter to manage the cathedral fund, to see to the necessary repairs, pay the church officers, etc.

Wiktionary

  1. n. An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
  2. n. One concerned with political economy.
  3. n. obsolete One who manages a household.
  4. n. obsolete One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
  2. n. One who is conversant with political economy; an expert in the field of economics.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an expert in the science of economics

Etymologies

  1. From Middle French économiste ("household manager") (Wiktionary)

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