Etymology

physiocrat

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Today it means: Any of a group of economists in 18th-century France who believed that the government should not seek to influence the operation of natural economic laws. Full definition →

First used 18th c.French physiocrate
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  1. French · borrowed fromphysiocrate
  2. English todayphysiocrat

From French physiocrate, corresponding to physio- + -crat.

First known use, by meaning

  • from 18th c. Any of a group of economists in 18th-century France who believed that the government should not seek to influence the operation of natural economic laws.

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