[] a person who studies or writes about economics; a person whose job involves studying particular economies and predicting their future progress经济学家；经济专家◆an academic/business economist学术／商业经济学家◆The bank's chief economist has reduced her forecast for growth in the eurozone to 0.5%.银行的首席经济学家将她对欧元区经济增长的预测调低到 0.5%。