economist

Other forms of economist

plural

economists·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about economist

What does economist mean?

economist means "an expert in the science of economics".

How many syllables are in economist?

economist has 4 syllables: e-co-no-mist. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ɪˈkɑnəmɪst/.

What is another word for economist?

Close synonyms include economic expert. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is economist a common word?

economist is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.