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ADAM SMITH
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• ADAM SMITH (noun)
The noun ADAM SMITH has 1 sense:
1. Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)
Familiarity information: ADAM SMITH used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Scottish economist who advocated private enterprise and free trade (1723-1790)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Adam Smith; Smith
Instance hypernyms:
economic expert; economist (an expert in the science of economics)
Context examples
On the one shelf at the library he found Karl Marx, Ricardo, Adam Smith, and Mill, and the abstruse formulas of the one gave no clew that the ideas of another were obsolete.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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