Gay vs Economist - What's the difference?
gay | economist |
, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.
from the word gay, "joyful"; rare today.
. Also a shortened form of Gabriel, Gaylord and similar names, or transferred from the surname.
* 1992 , Unto the Sons , Ballantine Books 1993, ISBN 0804110336, page 15
* 2004 , Bad Dirt , Fourth Estate, ISBN 0007196911, page 32
An expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= One concerned with political economy.
(obsolete) One who manages a household.
(obsolete) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
In obsolete terms the difference between gay and economist
is that gay is an ornament while economist is one who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.As nouns the difference between gay and economist
is that gay is a homosexual, especially a male homosexual; see also lesbian while economist is an expert in economics, especially one who studies economic data and extracts higher-level information or proposes theories.As a proper noun Gay
is {{surname|A=An|English|from=nicknames}}, originally a nickname for a cheerful or lively person.As an adjective gay
is happy, joyful, and lively.As a verb gay
is to make happy or cheerful.gay
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - my father's father, Gaetano Talese ( whose name I inherited after my birth in 1932, in the anglicized from of "Gay "), was an atypically fearless traveler,
- "Mr Gay Brawls. What a name."
- "It didn't use to mean what it means now. Plenty were named Gay'. Even in Nevada. Was old ' Gay Pitch had a gas station in Winnemucca. Nobody thought nothin about it and he raised a railroad car of kids.- - -
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*economist
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Boundary problems, passage=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.}}