capitalist

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  1. noun A supporter of capitalism.
  2. noun An investor of capital in business, especially one having a major financial interest in an important enterprise.
  3. noun A person of great wealth.
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  • CA: You started talking in recent years about this term capitalist philanthropy. —  Richard Branson's life at 30,000 feet
  • G20 Meltdown will see a coalitions of anti-capitalist, anarchist and single-issue protest groups converge on the Bank of England. —  legitgov
  • Meanwhile, the populist governments act as an ideological-political rearguard but the most pressing problem for the Cuban government isn't that but the fact that it can't even provide decent food for the people and it has to solve this problem before such a regional Latin American capitalist block is formed with a minimum of solvency.
  • I play queer music and talk about anti-capitalist, anti-assimilationist queer issues and sometimes I find something postitive to discuss. —  portland indymedia - features
  • Now you're sounding oddly anti-capitalist, which is the opposite of libertarianism, so I'm at a loss. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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  1. from capital + -ist; = French capitaliste.
 

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/ˈkæpɪtəlɪst/
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