technologist

[ tek-nol-uh-jist ]

noun

1. a person who specializes in technology.

Other Words From

• anti·tech·nolo·gist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of technologist¹

First recorded in 1855–60; technolog(y) + -ist

Example Sentences

In his 2008 book, “Here Comes Everybody,” technologist Clay Shirky predicted how the Internet could be used to organize people without formal organizations.

From Washington Post

Researchers, technologists, and activists told me that major social media companies have, for the entire lifetime of their history, chosen to do nothing, or to act only after their platforms cause abuse and harm.

From MIT Technology Review

Officials also signed off on a privacy advisory board consisting of technologists and community members who can make recommendations.

From Voice of San Diego

A group of former government technologists and IT experts rejected the judiciary’s estimate in a letter to the Judicial Conference this month.

From Washington Post

She worries about the possibility of infecting her father, a motorcycle mechanic, or her mother, a medical-imaging technologist.

From Washington Post

Get to know E2E (end to end) encryption, says Dan Auerbach, a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

From The Daily Beast

As an investor, a technologist, and an entrepreneur, Andreessen deserves a place in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame.

From The Daily Beast

All of which needed to happen while Andy waited by the phone: Dom, a technologist with the city, would call when it was time.

From The Daily Beast

Peter Hartwell is a distinguished technologist and the lead on HP Labs Central Nervous System for the Earth project (CeNSE).

From The Daily Beast

The account rendered by the technologist with respect to the light oils of the tar is thus a pretty good one.

From Project Gutenberg

It has been expressly written for the general reader and for the technologist in other branches of industry.

From Project Gutenberg

The wish was expressed that I should stay in England and become a technologist, but I was too much attached to home.

From Project Gutenberg

The technologist began to cry suddenly in a low, sobbing voice.

From Project Gutenberg

This method brings the technologist into competition with Nature, and we shall see the result.

From Project Gutenberg