Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who performs analysis, as.
- noun One who practices psychoanalysis.
- noun One who performs systems analysis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who analyzes or who is versed in analysis, in any application of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
analyzes - noun mathematics a
mathematician who studiesreal analysis - noun computing a
systems analyst - noun psychiatry a
practitioner ofpsychoanalysis - noun a financial analyst; a
business analyst
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
- noun someone who is skilled at analyzing data
- noun an expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions
Etymologies
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Examples
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In all reality, I believe that Infoworld is equally guilty of the same questionable guidance practiced by other folks with the title analyst in that they too never seem to compare non-commercial open source product offerings next to commercial proprietary offerings in the test lab.
From Incite comes Insight...: Analysts and Software Vendors Unite: Bring me great gifts for the holidays! James McGovern 2005
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April 20th, 2010 at 4: 01 am zirconia-blank says: the analyst is the lie, the expert in the TV and so on is only the wastrel.
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The tests, after all, are intended as an approximation for when an informed analyst is not available, not as a data source in lieu of informed analysis.
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Sanford Bernstein analyst Geoffrey Porges said investors are likely encouraged by the manufacturing update and the company's fourth-quarter sales projections for its top products.
Genzyme Profit Soars as Operating Costs Decline Thomas Gryta 2010
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As Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett notes, one of the "critical lines of defense" in the debate about video cord-cutting — consumers dropping their cable subscription in favor of cheap Web video — is that content companies won't make their content available for alternative business models unless the economics make sense.
Comcast Could Suffer From Universal Access Martin Peers 2010
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"It's as if the music industry would only allow the publication of records that are better than those of The Beatles," says Bernstein analyst Jack Scannell.
Companies Aim to Personalize Therapy Goran Mijuk 2010
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Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi estimates this could cost EMC a billion dollars a year, depending on how much VMware itself repurchases, or about a third of its free cash flow.
Run EMC: Parent Looks Like Better Bet Than VMware Rolfe Winkler 2010
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Indeed, only 24% of the iPhone activations were people new to AT & T, down from 40% a year earlier and an "all time low" for AT & T, according to Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett.
How eBay Could Disconnect AT Martin Peers 2010
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Indeed, Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi estimates the App Store's net revenue for Apple will rise from $425 million in fiscal 2010 to $2.3 billion in fiscal 2015.
Amazon's App Attack on Google Martin Peers 2010
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In a memo to member stations Thursday, NPR's Chief Executive Vivian Schiller stressed that an NPR news analyst is not a commentator and "may not take personal public positions on controversial issues."
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