statist

From state +‎ -ist.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsteɪtɪst/
• Rhymes: -eɪtɪst

statist (plural statists)

1. A supporter of statism. [from 20th c.]
2. (dated) A statistician. [from 19th c.]
3. (archaic) A skilled politician or one with political power, knowledge or influence. [from 16th c.]
   • 1603–1604 (date written), [George Chapman], Bussy D’Ambois: A Tragedie: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for William Aspley, published 1607, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:

     [O]ur Tympanouſe ſtatiſts / (In their affected grauitie of voice, / Sovverneſſe of countenance, maners crueltie, / Authoritie, vvealth, and all the ſpavvne of Fortune) / Thinke they beare all the kingdomes vvorth before them; […]

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, chapter I, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 3:

     Statists and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato is the first Considerable, as though it were their business to deceive the people, as a Maxim, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […] .

statist (comparative more statist, superlative most statist)

1. Pertaining to statism.
   • 2006 January, David Garcia, “Learning the Right Lessons”, in Mute‎^[1], →ISSN:

     It was as if the Samizdat spirit, extended and intensified by the proliferation of do-it-yourself media, had rendered the centralised, statist tyrannies of the Soviet Union untenable.

   • 2008, Bradley Simpson, Economists with Guns, page 26:

     By the early 1950s, however, the rising expectations for economic growth in the developing world were being dashed by the failure of foreign investment to materialize and by the declining terms of trade in these same raw materials, increasing the appeal of statist solutions.

   • 2009 March 31, Jonathan Freedland, “Jonathan Freedland: Where is the new JFK we expected? He's stuck in a rut with Gordon Brown”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Instead, he [Barack Obama] and [Gordon] Brown stand together, supposedly the representatives of Anglo-American turbocapitalism, struggling to push the statist French and Germans—and this is the bit that was in nobody's script—leftward.

   • 2010 April 17, David Cameron, “This is a radical revolt against the statist approach of Big Government”, in The Guardian‎^[3]:

     This is why the Conservative programme for government is founded on such a radical revolt against the statist approach of the Big Government that always knows best.

statist m (definite singular statisten, indefinite plural statister, definite plural statistene)

1. supernumerary, walk-on, extra (background actor)

statist m (definite singular statisten, indefinite plural statistar, definite plural statistane)

1. an extra (person without a speaking part appearing in a film or play)

• stàtista (Bosnia, Serbia)

Borrowed from English statist.

• IPA^(key): /stǎtist/
• Hyphenation: sta‧tist

stàtist m anim (Cyrillic spelling ста̀тист)

1. (Croatia) extra (person without a speaking part appearing in a film or play)

• “statist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

statist c

1. supernumerary, walk-on, extra (background actor)