Analyst

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster] Analytic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  analyst
       n 1: 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "analyst":
     analyzer, assayer, behavior therapist, clinical psychologist,
     essayer, examiner, experimenter, headshrinker, hypnotherapist,
     narcotherapist, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychoanalyzer,
     psychotherapeutist, psychotherapist, research worker, researcher,
     shrink, shrinker, test driver, test pilot, tester, tryer-out