analyst
pronunciation
How to pronounce analyst in British English:
UK [ˈænəlɪst]
How to pronounce analyst in American English:
US [ˈænəlɪst]
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- Noun:
- someone who is skilled at analyzing data
- an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions
- a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
Word Origin
- analyst (n.)
- 1650s, "mathematician skilled in algebraic geometry," from French analyste "a person who analyzes," from analyser (see analysis). As a short form of psychoanalyst, attested from 1914. Greek analyter meant "a deliverer."
Example
- 1. The average analyst estimate was $ 3.65 a share .
- 2. I talked to a senior chinese policy analyst about the new attitude .
- 3. One well-informed chinese analyst still thinks conflict can be avoided .
- 4. Wiebe the analyst and ed loomis a computer scientist at sarc also left .
- 5. No single item is of sufficient importance to suffice as a guiding principle for the organizational analyst .