a person who carefully studies information, events, or situations in order to understand them and explain their meaning
The company hired an analyst to examine customer feedback and spot trends.
As a sports analyst, she broke down each team's strategy on live TV.
✦ From analyze + -ist, first recorded in English in the early 19th century.
a person who studies companies, markets, and economic data to give advice or predictions about investing
The bank's senior analyst predicted that oil prices would fall next year.
Many investors rely on a financial analyst's quarterly reports before buying stocks.
(informal) short for psychoanalyst, a therapist trained in psychoanalysis
After her anxiety worsened, she began weekly sessions with an analyst.
The famous analyst wrote several papers on dream interpretation.
