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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

capitalist Synonyms

capitalist

n.

capitalist Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • lead: In its face, Alan Greenspan, long regarded by leading capitalists as possessing positively magical powers, confessed bewilderment.
  • become: By: Real Business In a flash, Jon Moulton became the best-known venture capitalist in Britain.

Adjective modifier

  • greedy: Or is it that they will learn to be greedy capitalists and want to keep every penny of their inflated incomes.
  • industrial: The creaking world economy was started up again by a coalition of industrial capitalists and government, with the trade unions as junior partner.
  • liberal: Lenin attacked them for capitulating to the liberal capitalists.
  • foreign: This was rubbish, but the last thing the bureaucrats wanted was revolution or upheaval in another country upsetting their relations with foreign capitalists.
  • French: Their only thought was to pump out of the Russian people the interest due on old loans advanced by French capitalists to Czarism.
  • British: Even in the 19th century, the railroad age, British capitalists did not make vast fortunes out of them.

Modifies a noun

  • globalization: Far from uniting humanity, capitalist globalization has been carried out by strong nations conquering the weak.
  • globalization: Working classes have suffered defeat after defeat in this era of capitalist globalization.
  • exploitation: New resistance to capitalist exploitation is being expressed strongly.
  • economy: A capitalist market economy is not, of course, an equal society.
  • society: Why does capitalist society find itself in a blind alley?
  • accumulation: Perhaps if there could be equilibrium between all factors contributing to capitalist accumulation then the crises could be solved.

Noun used with modifier

  • venture: For example, how do you talk to venture capitalists?
  • monopoly: The monopoly capitalists and financial oligarchy control Europe, both the EU as a whole and the individual countries.
  • merchant: The wealthiest of the merchant capitalists did side with the Royalists.
  • finance: These interests are a source of profits for the international finance capitalists.
  • state: That competition in both its free market and state capitalist form have combined to produce the economic disaster we see across the globe today.
  • world: Can Africa's leaders finally, vigorously campaign against such extreme uneven world capitalist development?