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capitalist definition

capi·tal·ist (-ist)

noun

  1. a person who has capital; owner of wealth used in business
  2. an upholder of capitalism
  3. loosely a wealthy person

adjective

capitalistic

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capitalist Synonyms

capitalist

n.

entrepreneur, investor, industrialist, plutocrat; see banker 1, businessperson, financier, millionaire.


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capitalist Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • lead: In its face, Alan Greenspan, long regarded by leading capitalists as possessing positively magical powers, confessed bewilderment.

Adjective modifier

  • greedy: Or is it that they will learn to be greedy capitalists and want to keep every penny of their inflated incomes.

Modifies a noun

  • globalization: Far from uniting humanity, capitalist globalization has been carried out by strong nations conquering the weak.

Noun used with modifier

  • venture: For example, how do you talk to venture capitalists?
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capitalist quotes

The day has passed for patching up the capitalist system; it must go. And in the work of abolishing it the Catholic and the Protestant, the Catholic and the Jew, the Catholic and the Freethinker, the Catholic and the Buddhist, the Catholic and the Mahometan will co- operate together† For, as we have said elsewhere, Socialism is neither Protestant nor Catholic,Christian norFreethinker,Buddhist,Mahometan, nor Jew; it isonly HUMAN.

-Connolly,James

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.

-Connolly,James

If there are indeed any iron laws of history, one of them is surely that in any major crisis of the capitalist system, a sector of the liberal middle class will shift to the left, and then shift smartly back again once the crisis has blown over.

-Eagleton,Terry

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