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capitalist

[kap-i-tl-ist]

noun

  1. a person who has capital, especially extensive capital, invested in business enterprises.

  2. an advocate of capitalism.

  3. a very wealthy person.



capitalist

/ ˈæɪəɪ /

noun

  1. a person who owns capital, esp capital invested in a business

  2. politics a supporter of capitalism

  3. informala rich person

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of or relating to capital, capitalists, or capitalism

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Word Forms

  • anticapitalist noun
  • noncapitalist noun
  • precapitalist noun
  • procapitalist noun
  • ˌ辱ٲˈپ adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of capitalist1

First recorded in 1785–95; capital 1 + -ist
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Here, Cheshire cats and mad hatters have been bumped for odd shopkeepers and pot-smoking venture capitalists.

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“ are you fine capitalists selling?” he asks them.

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“Sounds like he’s exploiting you,” Zero says, “making you jump through his hoops for his own ego and personal gain … It’s what these capitalists do.”

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Arguing that performers, like everyone else, are a product of their times, Shergill says these impulses are "a response to the hyper capitalist world".

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And they are developing pricing strategies based on reducing the need for labor, said Michael Yang, a venture capitalist at OMERS.

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