MALTHUS

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• MALTHUS (noun)
  The noun MALTHUS has 1 sense:

1. an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)

  Familiarity information: MALTHUS used as a noun is very rare.

• MALTHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Malthus; Thomas Malthus; Thomas Robert Malthus

Instance hypernyms:

economic expert; economist (an expert in the science of economics)

Derivation:

Malthusian (of or relating to Thomas Malthus or to Malthusianism)

 Context examples 

He quoted Spencer and Malthus, and enunciated the biological law of development.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)