Statist

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈsteɪtɪst/

Origin

From Latin status ("state") + -ist.

Full definition of statist

Noun

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.

Adjective

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.