Metallist

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person who works with metals.
  2. 2
    An advocate of metal coinage as the principal or sole currency.

    "No economist, with the possible exception of the most doctrinaire metallists, have ever expressed any other opinion. --American Economic Review (1938) 28, p. 316"

  3. 3
    A metaller: a fan of the metal music genre.

Synonyms

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metaller

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"No economist, with the possible exception of the most doctrinaire metallists, have ever expressed any other opinion. --American Economic Review (1938) 28, p. 316"

Etymology

From metal + -ist.

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