RICARDO

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

1. English economist who argued that the laws of supply and demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823)

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

• RICARDO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English economist who argued that the laws of supply and demand should operate in a free market (1772-1823)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

David Ricardo; Ricardo

Instance hypernyms:

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

 Context examples 

According to Ricardo Mello, who spearheads WWF-Brasil's Amazon Program, a mere 20% of the forest's ecosystem is known.

(Report unveils 381 new plant and animal species in Amazon, Agência Brasil)

On the one shelf at the library he found Karl Marx, Ricardo, Adam Smith, and Mill, and the abstruse formulas of the one gave no clew that the ideas of another were obsolete.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

We now know that these areas, once thought to be barren and stable, are actually quite dynamic, said Ricardo Letelier, an Oregon State University biogeochemist and ecologist who, in collaboration with scientist David Karl at the University of Hawaii, led the study.

(North Pacific Ocean fertilized by iron in Asian dust, National Science Foundation)