Malthus

  1. Proper noun.  (surname, rare) derived from the (etyl, enm) word for malthouse.
  2. Proper noun.  ''Specifically,'' Thomas Malthus, English demographer and political economist, who proposed the view that population growth always exceeds the growth of the necessary food supply.

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