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n. - An important intellectual; Someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision).

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  • This may, in fact, be code for being a long-term thinker in a short-term world.
  • A sign of a low-quality thinker is the use of "What about X?", where X is any hot topic.
  • He's also not a long-term thinker in any kind of strategic, political or ideological way.
  • No long term thinker would then even more perversely underfund the pension liability either.
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