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capitalist

[kap-i-tl-ist]

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noun

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

an advocate of capitalism.

a very wealthy person.

Origin:
1785–95; capital¹ + -ist

Related forms

an·ti·cap·i·tal·ist, noun, adjective

non·cap·i·tal·ist, noun

pre·cap·i·tal·ist, noun, adjective

pro·cap·i·tal·ist, noun, adjective

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Alternative paths to capitalist success have only multiplied in recent years.

He has also been a high-tech entrepreneur and a venture capitalist.

When the merchant extended his traffic in the exchange market to enter the credit market, he became a banker”-and a capitalist.

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Alternative paths to capitalist success have only multiplied in recent years.

He has also been a high-tech entrepreneur and a venture capitalist.

When the merchant extended his traffic in the exchange market to enter the credit market, he became a banker”-and a capitalist.

Perhaps every revolution, even a capitalist one, eats its children.

The capitalist system would remain in so far as it is necessary to have ambition, drive, and enthusiasm for the new way forward.

Excellent strategy-you never know if there's a venture capitalist hiding behind that fanny pack.

Rather than millions in funding, however, first prize was a one-on-one mentoring session with a venture capitalist.

If all goes well and a venture capitalist is interested in working with you, a term sheet will be issued.

Capitalist logic, ie the motion of capital does not ask such questions nor does it care to answer them.

If they volunteered to help or spoke about how someone should help the poor capitalist roader, they might be the next in line.

You're a tiny cog in the capitalist machine that's destroying the planet-and your own soul.

Consumption is not some sort of money driven capitalist evil.

One thing every venture capitalist thinks about on the way in: how to cash out.

I've always thought of money as the blood that keeps the capitalist system alive.

One greedy gouging capitalist helping to bring down a cohort of fellow greed-monsters.

In two decades, private-equity firms have moved from the outer fringe to the centre of the capitalist system.

The globe has one superpower, and that superpower has to choose to be either a moral superpower or a capitalist superpower.

If you really want to take the capitalist perspective, let's make it fee for service entirely.

Tycoons have traditionally discovered their inner saint only after exorcising the inner capitalist.

I've never met a capitalist who wasn't strongly committed to the idea of managed markets.

But the left, which might have expected to have benefited from a capitalist meltdown, is no better off.

The cleanest places on the planet are the capitalist nations.

It is not the environmentalist that are hindering nuclear power it is the capitalist.

The capitalist system as it is now known, will soon be a thing oof the past.

In our one-dimensional, capitalist age, the holistic view of how the world works rarely comes into play.

There is a growing tendency to cross the limits of sustainable greed which can be developed in a capitalist economy.

There's no free lunch in a capitalist corporate state.

It is not the environmentalist that killed off the nuclear power industry it is the capitalist.

The capitalist economy mirrors nature better than any other.

If your device works as you claim and it's reasonably priced, you need to approach a venture capitalist.

In nearly every capitalist country, moreover, the free market has sat down with the regulators.

The payment offers an undue incentive, coercion that pits abject poverty against a global capitalist enterprise.

The capitalist and social reformer will gain influence as a proponent of the humane.

For as long as that were true, the capitalist enclaves could grow without wages rising:.

Shell sound as if they would rather be venture capitalists than money managers''In a capitalist society like.

The enemy was either indifferent capitalist forces or mind-controlling big government.

The prophet of capitalism's creative powers also understood the precariousness of the capitalist achievement.

It recently scored some big new venture capitalist funding.

They also recommended exploiting the differences between the two capitalist powers.

But normal capitalist firms will continue to co-exist with them.

According to traditional capitalist thinking, of course, this made no economic sense.

It was a scathing send-up of our post-modern capitalist society.

It is hard to square the view that government is always an economic menace with the long history of capitalist development.

They turn to blood thirsty capitalist schools for a lack of options.

For all intents and purposes, no one is a capitalist or a socialist.

Google is playing venture capitalist in the hottest market for technology start-up companies in over a decade.

Now he is stirring things up again as a venture capitalist.

Maybe the capitalist system should carry a lot of the blame for the current situation.

The resulting gap between exceptionalist rhetoric and capitalist reality is growing.

He's had months to collect venture capitalist investors.

Its a discussion about ignoring real science to advance a socialist, anti capitalist agenda.

He peddles stories of the problems with the capitalist system while growing rich because of.

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capitalist (ˈkæpɪtəlɪst)

—n
1.	a person who owns capital, esp capital invested in a business
2.	politics a supporter of capitalism
3.	informal, derogatory usually a rich person

—*adj*
4.	of or relating to capital, capitalists, or capitalism

capital'istic

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

capitalist

1791, from Fr. capitaliste, a coinage of the Revolution and a term of reproach; see capital. Capitalistic is from 1873.

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