Capitalist

[cap·i·tal·ist]

Someone who hopes to profit by investing money or financing business ventures is a capitalist. A nation's economy is described as capitalist if it's based on private ownership and profit.

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One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.

Noun
a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)

Noun
a conservative advocate of capitalism

Adjective
favoring or practicing capitalism

Adjective
of or relating to capitalism or capitalists; "a capitalist nation"; "capitalistic methods and incentives"


n.
One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.


Capitalist

Cap"i*tal*ist, n. [Cf. F. capitaliste.] One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.
The expenditure of the capitalist.

One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.

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Usage Examples

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie.

We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.

In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.

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Other Usage Examples

The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

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

I started out in engineering. I was a geophysical engineer. Throughout the course of my life I've done a lot of strange jobs, and the effect has been to make me think a little more skeptically about our capitalist society.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

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