capitalist

Speech parts

1. capitalist - Noun

2. capitalist - Adjective

Meaning

One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

capitalistic bourgeois mogul investor entrepreneur financier tycoon industrialist businessperson moneyman republican baron anglo-saxon babbitt money
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Antonyms

socialist anti-capitalist communist fabian bolshevik Marxist
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Hypernyms

individual person soul conservative mortal somebody

Hyponyms

developer bourgeois holder investor bearer financier

Phrases with the word

capitalist world capitalist system industrial capitalist model capitalist country capitalist economies capitalist regime

Examples

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. James Connolly

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. James Tobin

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. Karl Marx

If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system? Joseph Stiglitz

Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. Vladimir Lenin

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production. Eric Hobsbawm

Close letter words and terms

capitalisation capitalise capitalism capitalist anarchism capitalist anarchist capitalist class