capitalist
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4.1
- adjective
- /ˈkæpɪtəlɪst/
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capitalista
- Hong Kong will maintain its capitalist economic and trade systems for fifty years after 1997.
- capitalist economy
- capitalist world
- capitalist country
Yeah, it's not, it's not the wealth, it's the the capitalist imperative.
- Yeah, it's not, it's not the wealth, it's the the capitalist imperative.
- The problem is the nature of how capitalist society has been developed.
- And this is the North American capitalist ideal, You know.
- The the basic first few rungs of the ladder of a capitalist climb.
- Try to understand what what what socialism through capitalist means can offer him.
- Israel exists as a project of modern capitalist colonialism.
- Most of the globe is under a capitalist system.
- I'm not interested to continue to compete in this capitalist world if you want.
- But they're all still capitalist factories.
- Yeah, they're anti free market, anti capitalist.
- There's no absolute connection between capitalist theory and grid phenomena.
- It's the pension fund and real capitalist factories and roads and so on.
- Not by attacking them, but by beating them in the marketplace the good old fashioned American capitalist way.
Examples
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We should be clear upfront that inequality, rather than equality, is the founding stone of a capitalist democracy.
Academic text (2017) -
Most of the globe is under a capitalist system.
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The problem is the nature of how capitalist society has been developed.
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And this is the North American capitalist ideal, You know.
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At first, people tried to deal with this problem in a capitalist manner.
Academic text (1992) -
It's just an unfortunate reality of how the world works in a capitalist democracy.
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All my life I've heard that America is a capitalist country.
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But in a capitalist society, there's only one freedom, the freedom of the market.
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As democracy embraced the capitalist vision, so too did it embrace the ideology of nature contained within it.
Academic text (1999) -
In a capitalist society, the government allows individuals to own private property and operate businesses freely.
Synonyms
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6.0
A way of thinking that supports private ownership and free markets
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7.4
Supporting free markets and less government control of the economy
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4.7
Supporting a system where private businesses compete with little government control
Antonyms
A belief or movement against a system where businesses make money for private owners
Compounds
- Specialized
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5.8
A person or company that gives money to new risky businesses to make money
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4.2
An economic system where private people or companies own businesses and try to make money
- Archaic
A person in a socialist or communist system who supports capitalist policies
- Archaic
A policy of using private business and market ideas that puts economic growth above social equality, often criticised by socialists
A person who supports the system where businesses are privately owned and compete
How Capitalist
- Formal
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- Formal
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3.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Capitalist comes from capital, which originally meant 'head' and later came to mean 'money used for business'. So to be capitalist as an adjective is to favor a system where private money and investment guide the economy.