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say it: kaynz
keynes is a noun meaning "English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946)". It is pronounced /ˈkeɪnz/ — kaynz. It carries one recorded sense.
English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for keynes come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.