ANALYST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does analyst mean? 

• ANALYST (noun)
  The noun ANALYST has 3 senses:

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

  Familiarity information: ANALYST used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANALYST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is skilled at analyzing data

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("analyst" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "analyst"):

assayer (an analyst who assays (performs chemical tests on) metals)

intelligence analyst (a government analyst of information about an enemy or potential enemy)

systems analyst (a person skilled at systems analysis)

Derivation:

analyze (make a mathematical, chemical, or grammatical analysis of; break down into components or essential features)

analyze (consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("analyst" is a kind of...):

expert (a person with special knowledge or ability who performs skillfully)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "analyst"):

credit analyst (an analyst who studies the financial statements and financial history of applicants for credit in order to evaluate their creditworthiness)

financial analyst; securities analyst (an analyst who studies the financial performance of corporations)

industry analyst (an analyst of conditions affecting a particular industry)

market analyst (an analyst of conditions affecting a market (especially the stock market))

Derivation:

analyze (break down into components or essential features)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

analyst; psychoanalyst

Hypernyms ("analyst" is a kind of...):

head-shrinker; psychiatrist; shrink (a physician who specializes in psychiatry)

Instance hyponyms:

Freud; Sigmund Freud (Austrian neurologist who originated psychoanalysis (1856-1939))

Klein; Melanie Klein (United States psychoanalyst (born in Austria) who was the first to specialize in the psychoanalysis of small children (1882-1960))

Reich; Wilhelm Reich (Austrian born psychoanalyst who lived in the United States; advocated sexual freedom and believed that cosmic energy could be concentrated in a human being (1897-1957))

Derivation:

analyze (subject to psychoanalytic treatment)

 Context examples 

For example, accountant, programmer analyst, patient care associate, staff nurse, etc.

(Occupation, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A clinical study that is designed using a procedure in which one or more parties to the study [subject(s), investigator(s), monitor, or/and data analyst(s)] are kept unaware of the treatment assignment(s).

(Blinded Clinical Study, NCI Thesaurus)