Leontief, Wassily Syllabification: (Le·on·ti·ef, Wassily)Pronunciation: /lēˈ(y)ônˌtyef/Definition of Leontief, Wassily (1906–99), US economist, educator, and writer; born in Germany to Russian parents. His most significant published work is The Structure of the American Economy 1919–1929 (1941). Nobel Prize for Economics (1973).
