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/ɪˈkɑːnəmɪst/ · /ɪˈkɒnəmɪst/
A person who studies how money, goods, and business work in a country or around the world.
經濟學家
複數 economists
核心畫面
Picture someone watching prices, jobs, trade and spending the way a doctor watches a body — not selling anything, not running a company, but trying to work out why money and goods are moving the way they are, and what happens next. An economist can be thought of as the person whose job is that watching and explaining: economy plus -ist, the one who studies it.
可以想成有一個人盯著物價、就業、貿易和大家的花費，像醫生看一個身體那樣——他不賣東西，也不經營公司，只是想弄清楚錢和…更多收起
可以想成有一個人盯著物價、就業、貿易和大家的花費，像醫生看一個身體那樣——他不賣東西，也不經營公司，只是想弄清楚錢和貨為什麼這樣流動，以及接下來會怎麼走。economist 就像是把「做這件觀察和解釋的人」收成一個字：economy 加上 -ist，研究經濟的那個人。原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
economistnoun/ɪˈkɒn.ə.mɪst/
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An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
- Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
- The formula, which AEI economists said had “no foundation in either economic theory or trade law,” instead wrongly incorporated the elasticity for retail prices. […] However, certainty is anything but a sure thing these days, and the bread-and-butter of the US economy might not go unscathed, said RSM economist Brusuelas.
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One concerned with political economy.
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obsoleteOne who manages a household.
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obsoleteOne who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。