capitalist Definition
capi·tal·ist (-ist)
noun
- a person who has capital; owner of wealth used in business
- an upholder of capitalism
- 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?
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