different between statistician vs statist

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?stæt?s?t??n?/

Noun

statistician (plural statisticians)

1. A person who compiles, interprets, or studies statistics.
2. (mathematics) A mathematician with a specialty of statistics.

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French statisticien.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sta.tis.ti.t??i?an/

Noun

statistician m (plural statisticieni, feminine equivalent statistician?)

1. (mathematics) statistician

Declension

Synonyms

• statistic (dated)

Related terms

• statistic?
• statisticism

References

• statistician in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Etymology

state +? -ist

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ste?t?st/

Noun

statist (plural statists)

1. (archaic) A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence. [from 16th c.]
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:

     Statists and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato is the first Considerable, as though it were their business to deceive the people, as a Maxim, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them [...].

2. (dated) A statistician. [from 19th c.]
3. A supporter of statism. [from 20th c.]

Translations

Adjective

statist (comparative more statist, superlative most statist)

1. Pertaining to statism.
   • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 26:

     By the early 1950s, however, the rising expectations for economic growth in the developing world were being dashed by the failure of foreign investment to materialize and by the declining terms of trade in these same raw materials, increasing the appeal of statist solutions.

Translations

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

statist m (definite singular statisten, indefinite plural statister, definite plural statistene)

1. supernumerary, walk-on, extra (background actor)

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

statist m (definite singular statisten, indefinite plural statistar, definite plural statistane)

1. an extra (person without a speaking part appearing in a film or play)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English statist.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /st?tist/

Noun

stàtist m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. an extra (person without a speaking part appearing in a film or play)

Declension

References

• “statist” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Swedish

Noun

statist c

1. supernumerary, walk-on, extra (background actor)