economist
noun /ɪˈkɒnəmɪst/
/ɪˈkɑːnəmɪst/
- a person who studies or writes about economics
经济学家；经济专家 - the World Bank's chief economist
世界银行的首席经济学家 - Many economists are predicting the economy will improve.
许多经济学家预测经济将会好转。
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- chief
- leading
- prominent
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词源late 16th cent. (originally in the Greek sense): from Greek oikonomos ‘household manager’, from oikonomia ‘household management’, based on oikos ‘house’ + nemein ‘manage’ + -ist. The current sense dates from the early 19th cent. - the World Bank's chief economist