Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists.
- adj. Favoring or practicing capitalism: a capitalistic country.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to capital or capitalists; representing or carried on by capital or capitalists; founded on or believing in capitalism: as, capitalistic production; capitalistic opinions.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to capitalism or to capitalists.
- adj. Organised on a capitalist basis.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists.
- adj. Favoring or practicing capitalism.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to capitalism or capitalists
- adj. favoring or practicing capitalism
Examples
“He had written a paper proposing a “new” kind of capitalism that was little more than the same old disproved Keynesian, government spending model couched in capitalistic language.”
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“I am a firm believer in capitalistic competition as a driver for innovation (which is why I hate the oil companies SO SO much, dirty price setting oligarchs!) and the RPG market should be no different.”
“George Soros made most of his money in capitalistic economies.”
“Of course, it needed prosperity in capitalistic Europe and America to do that, because the more prosperous capitalistic Europe and America are, the more money Russia could borrow, the more machinery she could get, the better exchange of exports in terms of machinery, money and personnel, and in 25 years this great machine would have been created which would have been the Nemesis of Western capitalism.”
“A giant threat to the system is being disposed of, systematically and without remorse, making of America and its citizens yet one more cog in the engine called capitalistic exploitation of humanity.”
“In modern society, even amongst the so-called capitalistic countries, nationalisation of certain industries and commercial undertakings has become an accepted and established fact.”
“Free Enterprise I describe as the capitalistic or profit and loss system operating with only those restrictions necessary to protect the public welfare.”
“That is why this era is called the capitalistic era.”
“We do not believe that there is anything essentially the matter with what is called our capitalistic system or our labor union system except men -- the men who think they belong in the front ranks of capital and the front ranks of labor.”
“This count comes under the head of what may be called capitalistic sabotage.”
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