Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A supporter of capitalism.
- n. An investor of capital in business, especially one having a major financial interest in an important enterprise.
- n. A person of great wealth.
- adj. Capitalistic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who has capital; especially, a man of large property which is or may be employed in business.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of, or pertaining to, capitalism.
- adj. Supporting or endorsing capitalism.
- n. A person who is a supporter of capitalism (Wikipedia).
- n. An owner of (considerable amount of) capital (Wikipedia).
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to capitalism or capitalists
- adj. favoring or practicing capitalism
- n. a conservative advocate of capitalism
- n. a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
Examples
“For Mao, however, the term capitalist was used to describe anyone he disliked, many of whom had little or no property.”
“The term capitalist revolution is being used in this context to denote and elucidate the emergence and the taking root of trade liberalization and fiscal decentralization in China.”
“CA: You started talking in recent years about this term capitalist philanthropy.”
“Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is looking to confront the United States, which he calls a capitalist, imperialist model of democracy.”
“Then, I picked some old friends who were not historians; one's what we refer to as a capitalist reptile.”
“Some men have been found to denounce and deride the modern system -- what they call the capitalist system.”
“… Our existing system, what I call a capitalist world-economy, has been in existence for some 500 years and has for at least a century encompassed the entire globe.”
“Are'nt the VC's the epitome of the success of what we call the capitalist economy. inflection looming/upon (albeit a huge one) the VC landscape.”
“The "capitalist" is not such a dreadful sinner as some people think.”
“It may be that Merkel finds that Muslims are not so easily buying into the decadence of consumption and consumerism that are representative of a culture grounded in capitalist principles more than Christian ones.”
The Huffington Post: Yursil Kidwai: Germany Forgets: Islamic Values are Christian Values
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘capitalist’.
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POL - people in power
daredevil, tzar, king, boss, master, commander, chief, kingpin, top banana, bigwig, big cheese, big wheel and 452 more...
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Dramatic Nouns
Nouns to be used as descriptions while writing stories
night owl, early bird, hedonist, ascetic, derelict, explorer, radical, pity friend, cupid, truant, caretaker, guardian and 120 more...
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Yazhinni Spelling bee
tongue, stallion, scruple, salinity, schedule, rouge, populist, Permian, perspire, pasteurize, multitude, mournful and 227 more...
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European World Systems
europe, colonization, defense, barter, feudalism, gunpowder, technology, guns, domination, lords, monarchs, transition and 250 more...
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Ideologic
zionist, naxalite, communist, maoist, jihadi, islamist, marxist, tsarist, fascist, capitalist, leftist, nihilist and 34 more...
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alist
Not the A-list, not atilt, just a list of -alists that might be construed as descriptive of the list. See -alist for the open list.
formalist, specialist, realist, originalist, partialist, literalist, actualist, naturalist, anomalist, capitalist, conceptualist, essentialist and 27 more...
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The Octopus
Words gleaned from Frank Norris's 1901 novel The Octopus
deerhound, diapason, thitherward, chitter, unsteady, wiper, overspire, inanition, sheen, hiccough, quirt, broncho and 44 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for capitalist.
yarb "He was the head of the big Atlas Iron Works. They have shut down recently, you know. Not failed exactly, but just ceased to be a paying investment, and Cedarquist closed them out. He has other interests, though. He's a rich man--a capitalist."
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 1 Aug 19, 2008
npydyuan And an absurdist is someone who green sandwich in the TV studio under the stairs? Oct 10, 2007
burntsox oh - i get it. then a socialist is someone who includes too many addressees in email and always sends Reply All. Oct 10, 2007
john Someone who insists on using ALL CAPITAL LETTERS in email and the like. Oct 10, 2007