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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
analyst
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
industry analysts (=people who study a particular industry to see how it is developing)
▪ Industry analysts are expecting profits to improve in the second half of the year.
systems analyst
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
financial
▪ Thesaurus are predicting that dealers, academics and financial analysts will be keen to use their services.
▪ A corporate financial analyst then pointed out that the compensation formula Dave had developed would be impracticable on a company-wide level.
▪ As a financial analyst she could demonstrate that this was very strange behaviour and contrary to the interests of those involved.
▪ Many financial analysts said it also is likely that no changes will be made at the next meeting on March 25.
▪ Testing for generic strategies Financial analysts have a role to play in testing the validity of generic strategies, too.
▪ But that would damage the credibility of the government further and certainly affect the financial markets, analysts said.
independent
▪ However, independent political analyst Andrew MacMullen says Labour could still secure victory with a smaller swing in its favour.
▪ At least one independent analyst believes growth will be substantial.
▪ That, say friends of Gbagbo and independent analysts, shows the modesty of Ivory Coast's new president.
▪ But representatives of both sides said, and independent analysts agreed, that the Hebron deal itself is virtually nailed down.
▪ But independent analysts in the market predicted disaster.
▪ One independent political analyst, Stuart Rothenberg, thinks both parties are exaggerating.
political
▪ However, independent political analyst Andrew MacMullen says Labour could still secure victory with a smaller swing in its favour.
▪ Heavy advertising has won candidate Forbes far more attention than political analysts expected he would get.
▪ But despite the severity of the allegations, political analysts say it is unlikely that Estrada will be impeached.
▪ You can see that there are many fascinating questions that you can examine as you become a more insightful political analyst.
▪ Nancy Landon Kassebaum of Kansas, and some political analysts believe their retirements could make the chamber more conservative.
▪ One independent political analyst, Stuart Rothenberg, thinks both parties are exaggerating.
■ NOUN
budget
▪ Entry-level budget analysts may receive some formal training when they begin their jobs.
▪ Sources of Additional Information Information about career opportunities as a budget analyst may be available from your State or local employment service.
▪ After this review process, budget analysts consolidate the individual department budgets into operating and capital budget summaries.
▪ Fairfield has just one budget analyst in its finance department.
▪ Working Conditions Budget analysts work in a normal office setting, generally 40 hours per week.
▪ Employment of budget analysts is expected to grow about as fast as the average for all occupations through the year 2005.
▪ Ruthie had been a budget analyst and then comptroller for a hospital chain for much of her working life.
▪ Employment Budget analysts held about 66, 000 jobs throughout private industry and government in 1994.
computer
▪ The people who had put her in such a tizzy were a solicitor, a computer analyst and some one in advertising.
▪ Spafford Hutchinson, a computer analyst, had heard the television ads of Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes.
▪ Details of existing computer systems as would be known by computer analysts or programmers or even users of the system.
▪ Mrs Vince and her computer analyst husband, from Grimsby, Humberside, have visited their babies in the neonatal unit.
▪ The role of the computer analysts may be more of facilitator than designer, helping to realise the users' wishes.
discourse
▪ It is exactly this latter view of the nature of reference which the discourse analyst has to appeal to.
▪ In trying to determine such regularities, the discourse analyst will typically adopt the traditional methodology of descriptive linguistics.
▪ The discourse analyst attempts to discover regularities in his data and to describe them.
industry
▪ Motor industry analysts say Rover's upturn is partly down to efforts to improve its image.
▪ Hartsook, the industry analyst, estimated more than one million machines could have the flaws.
▪ Many industry analysts are predicting a slight industry recession in 1998.
investment
▪ After studying accountancy at Chicago University, he worked on and off as an investment analyst.
▪ That is an opportunity cost just like investment analysts view opportunity costs.
▪ Unusually, he is not an investment analyst, but a former history teacher.
▪ Henry Kaufman, the economist and investment analyst, might be expected to welcome the trend.
▪ Mr Stefan Abrams, an investment analyst at Kidder Peabody, thinks earnings will start rising again in the second quarter.
▪ The balance sheet that would be most useful to an investment analyst would be the market value balance sheet.
▪ In the bottom-up approach, investment analysts produce earnings forecasts on the basis of detailed research into the firm's activities.
market
▪ Many market analysts expect the sector to continue to climb in 1996, benefiting in part from the colder weather this winter.
▪ Tom McManus, a market analyst at Morgan Stanley&038;.
▪ If the snake so much as hiccups as the rat inches along, the market analysts and social prognosticators pounce.
▪ A few weeks ago, many stock market analysts cautioned investors against extravagant expectations for the new year.
▪ Lenders and market analysts said move-up projects remain the preferred product type for most builders.
policy
▪ Possible add to Trader Joes: Hospitals are seeking safety in numbers, according to health policy analysts.
▪ Richard Barnet, author / policy analyst.
▪ In time, Fallows also became a splendid computer guru, a genuine rarity among top public policy analysts.
street
▪ Wall Street analysts had expected the company to make 77 cents a share.
▪ Wall Street analysts had expected only $ 1. 09 for the latest quarter.
▪ Wall Street analysts had predicted revenue of between $ 26 million and $ 28 million.
▪ Wall Street analysts earlier this week speculated that Kodak would unload the unprofitable unit.
▪ Several Wall Street analysts also believe the companies have grounds to appeal.
▪ Wall Street analysts had estimated net income of 41.
▪ While the retailers will be looking at the clothes, Wall Street analysts will be looking at the retailers.
■ VERB
accord
▪ Pervez Musharraf, is one he may not be willing or able to make, according to analysts here.
▪ It gives an annual growth rate of 2. 3 percent, according to analysts.
▪ Alleged inconsistencies in the transport ministry, according to analysts, also damage confidence.
▪ Estimates ranged from 33. 5 million to 42 million pounds, according to analysts surveyed by Bloomberg Business News.
estimate
▪ Some analysts have estimated the potential investment at more than $ 100 billion by companies with their sights set on productionsharing deals.
▪ Demand has been heavy and analysts estimated that Ford makes $ 10, 000 on each Expedition it sells.
▪ The company posted sales of $ 57million for 1994, and analysts estimate similar sales for 1995.
▪ Cavallari, the Adventis analyst, estimates that Napster accounts for 3 percent of all Internet traffic.
▪ That boosted the reported payroll increase by approximately 75, 000, some analysts estimated.
▪ Wall Street analysts had estimated net income of 41.
▪ Benefits analysts have estimated that companies now providing health insurance pay, on average, about 10 percent of their payroll.
▪ The company earned $ 1. 89 a share last quarter, 5 percent higher than analysts estimated.
expect
▪ The overall February confidence figure was lower than the reading of 110.5 that had been expected by analysts.
▪ The narrowing trade gap means that growth in the fourth quarter could be better than expected, said analysts.
fall
▪ The stock fell after analyst John Whittier at Donaldson Lufkin&038;.
say
▪ S., but any meaningful dent in that market is years away, say analysts.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a stock market analyst
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After this review process, budget analysts consolidate the individual department budgets into operating and capital budget summaries.
▪ At current Nikkei levels, analysts believe most banks already have implicit losses on these equity portfolios.
▪ Entry-level budget analysts may receive some formal training when they begin their jobs.
▪ In January it revealed that its orders were down from a year ago; analysts think its earnings will follow.
▪ The company told analysts last week that chemical earnings would likely dip by more than 50 percent in 1996.
▪ There is a sense, then, in which the analyst is creating the text which others will read.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Analyst

Analyst \An"a*lyst\, n. [F. analyste. See Analysis.] One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
analyst

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."

Wiktionary
analyst

n. 1 someone who analyzes 2 (context mathematics English) a mathematician who studies real analysis 3 (context computing English) a systems analyst 4 (context psychiatry English) a practitioner of psychoanalysis 5 a financial analyst; a business analyst

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WordNet
analyst

  1. n. someone who is skilled at analyzing data

  2. an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions

  3. a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis [syn: psychoanalyst]

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Wikipedia
Analyst

An analyst is an individual who performs analysis of a topic. The term may refer to one of the following professions:

Accounting, business and finance
  • Accounting analyst, an accounting analyst evaluates and interprets public company financial statements
  • Business analyst, an employee who examines the needs and concerns of clients and stakeholders to determine where potential problems and opportunities lie, known also as a Business Systems Analyst in business
  • Cost analyst, an employee who analyzes business operations to determine which courses of action are most efficacious in business
  • Financial analyst, an individual who analyzes securities and business equity in economics and finance
  • Industry analyst, an individual who performs market research on segments of specific industries toward the identification of trends in business and finance
  • Marketing analyst, a person who analyzes price, customer, competitor and economic data to help companies
  • Quantitative analyst applies mathematical techniques to investment banking, especially in the fields of risk management, trading and financial derivatives
Other professions
  • Chemical analyst, a person who performs chemical experiments and analyses
  • Color analyst, an individual who, as against a play-by-play announcer, provides analysis and commentary in sports broadcasting
  • Handwriting analyst, a person who performs a personality assessment through handwriting
  • Intelligence analyst, an individual who performs intelligence analysis
  • Mathematical analyst, an individual who focuses in the area of mathematical analysis
  • News analyst, examines, analyses, interprets, and may comment on news received from various sources
  • Psychoanalyst, a practitioner who acts to facilitate understanding of a patient's unconscious mind
  • Public analyst, a qualified chemist appointed by a local authority in the United Kingdom
  • Public policy analyst, an individual who analyzes the effect of public policies with respect to their goals
  • Systems analyst, an individual who analyzes technical design and functional design for software development
  • Web metrics analyst, an individual who examines trends and patterns in the use and expansion of the World Wide Web in webometrics
Products

It may also refer to:

  • Analyst (software) (or AnalystQS), a mass spectrometry software
  • Analyst (journal), a chemistry journal
Analyst (journal)

Analyst is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of analytical chemistry, bioanalysis, and detection science. It is published by the Royal Society of Chemistry. The executive editor is May Copsey.

Analyst was established in 1876 by the Society for Analytical Chemistry as The Analyst and obtained its current name in 2009. According to the Journal Citation Reports, it has a 2014 impact factor of 4.107. It is abstracted and indexed in MEDLINE and Analytical Abstracts.

In 1999, the society closed the journal Analytical Communications because it felt that the material submitted to that journal would be best in a new communications section of Analyst. Predecessor journals of Analytical Communications were:

  • Proceedings of the Society for Analytical Chemistry, 1964–1974
  • Proceedings of the Analytical Division of the Chemical Society, 1975–1979
  • Analytical Proceedings, 1980–1993
  • Analytical Proceedings including Analytical Communications, 1994–1995
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Usage examples of "analyst".

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Maybe it was because we had spent those years as analyst and analysand that I had little hesitation in talking to her about it.

That would give analysts a fertile field to investigate, as fertile as the fields covered in the novels by New Zealand author Alan Brooker, who has joined the Amber Quill Press stable after some frustrating experiences with publishers in his own country and in the USA.

I asked an analyst to check airline tickets from the microbiology conference.

He and Larry Parmenter had belonged to a group called SE Detailed, six military analysts and intelligence men.

Rapid events required rapid responses: the needed consensus could only be reached in a free-form setting unencumbered by snail-paced bureaucracy, cabinet-level politicking, and endless second-guessing of timid analysts.

I would have as a profiler and criminal investigative analyst for the FBI.

The interesting thing is that, if the analysts would not predict these tremendous amounts of growth, they logically would have to prognose crisis.

The antennas would pick up the preprogrammed signals, and the onboard receivers would automatically transmit them down to Sigint analysts in South Vietnam, who could then retransmit them via satellite in near real time right to NSA.

Investigative Support Unit, which included some of the top profilers and criminal investigative analysts in the world-Larry Ankrom, Greg Cooper, Steve Etter, Bill Hagmaier, Roy Hazelwood, Steve Mardigian, Gregg McCrary, Jana Monroe, Jud Ray, Tom Salp, Pete Smerick, Clint Van Zandt, and Jim Wright.

The analyst was asked by him to report whether strychnine was, or was not, present.

Operatives and analysts handling Tinner met with Kappes and the Libyan team.

On November 10, CIA analysts briefed the Small Group of principals on their preliminary findings that the attack was carried out by a cell of Yemeni residents with some ties to the transnational mujahideen network.

How she must have laughed when she went back to report to Don Vinton about the amorous idiot who called himself an analyst and pretended to be an expert about people.

According to the analyst, there was no indication that there were antiair defenses in place, and no indication that they would be installed.