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say it: LAF-ur
laffer is a noun meaning "United States economist who proposed the Laffer curve (born in 1940)". It carries one recorded sense.
United States economist who proposed the Laffer curve (born in 1940)
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 laffer 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.