{
    "term": "analyst",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "academic": true,
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person whose job involves examining facts or materials in order to give an opinion on them",
            "sensetop": "according to an analyst",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **political/financial analyst**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a food/market analyst"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He's a **senior** research **analyst** at Deutsche Bank."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**analysts expect/predict**…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "City analysts forecast huge profits this year."
                },
                {
                    "text": "According to music **industry analysts**, music downloads are set to decline by as much as 30 per cent this year.",
                    "contextForm": "according to an analyst"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a leading business analyst"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She's an investment analyst with a big City firm."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This view is backed up by several independent political analysts in Washington."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Jobs", "Business"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["leading", "principal", "senior"],
                "preposition": ["analyst of"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who treats patients using psychoanalysis",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈænəlɪst/",
                "audio": "an/analyst/analyst__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈænəlɪst/",
                "audio": "an/analyst/analyst__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "mid 17th cent.: from French analyste, from the verb analyser, from medieval Latin analysis from Greek analusis, from analuein ‘unloose’, from ana- ‘up’ + luein ‘loosen’."
}