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1. Someone who is skilled at analysing data
    
2. An expert who studies financial data (on credit or securities or sales or financial patterns etc.) and recommends appropriate business actions
    
3. A licensed practitioner of psychoanalysis
   - psychoanalyst

Sounds like: annalist

Derived forms: analysts

See also: analyze [N. Amer]

Type of: expert, head-shrinker, psychiatrist, shrink

Encyclopedia: Analyst Analyst, or, Mathematical Museum