MONETARIST

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An advocate of the theory that economic fluctuations are caused by increases or decreases in the supply of money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

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

bimetallist (an advocate of bimetallism)

Derivation:

monetarism (an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money)

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