I. -ād.ə̇st, -ātə̇- noun
( -s )
Etymology: state (I) + -ist
1. archaic : one versed in state affairs : politician
hold it, as our statists do, a baseness to write fair — Shakespeare
2.
[translation of French étatiste ]
: an advocate of statism
our planners and statists — Raymond Moley
II. adjective
: of, relating to, or advocating statism
a statist conception
the partisans of the statist formula — Gordon Wright
matter-of-fact acceptance of a statist and collectivist ideology — Henry Hazlitt
III. ˈstad.ə̇st, -atə̇- noun
( -s )
Etymology: German, back-formation from statistik statistics — more at statistics
: one who collects statistics : statistician