capitalist
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈkæpɪtəlɪst/
- I was courted, for the first time, by capitalists to sell more and more subscriptions.
- venture capitalist
- development capitalists
- entrepreneurs and venture capitalists
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Watch on YouTubeI don't like that Companies Act, want to be capitalists but then treat their employees like it's communism.
- I don't like that Companies Act, want to be capitalists but then treat their employees like it's communism.
- So, so one, what about the the argument that sort of the employer, the capitalist takes on risk.
- So you as a good cost minimizing capitalist get take twice as many workers as machines, OK?
- And so the profits that a capitalist make is part of value.
- We knew we what we were we were going to start this venture capitalist capital company together.
- It was becoming his and her own capitalist.
- Like they're these like capitalists that are like upholding the economic growth of America, right?
Examples
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Since the debt crisis, even the most stubborn advocates of democratic capitalist development can no longer deny this.
Academic text (1992) -
We are telling him that another party is involved, a San Francisco capitalist offering $200,000.
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I think if you are a successful capitalist, you will hire more people, you will invest more as well.
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I am the worker, you are the capitalist.
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This capitalist pays me zero, works me whenever he likes.
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First, we will introduce the theory of regulation developed to understand periods of capitalist growth and crisis.
Academic text (1999) -
It was a capitalist transaction.
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What will the long-term social consequences of a modified capitalist system appealing to self-interest really be?
Academic text (1992) -
Various places are witnessing a resurgence of a certain capitalist neoliberalism that subordinates the human person to blind market forces.
Academic text (2008) -
A wealthy capitalist invested millions in the startup to help it grow.
Synonyms
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3.1
A person or company who gives money to a business to try to make money
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5.8
A person or company that gives money to new risky businesses to make money
Antonyms
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
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9.9
A person in a socialist or communist system who supports capitalist policies
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6.1
A person who supports the system where businesses are privately owned and compete
- Archaic
A policy of using private business and market ideas that puts economic growth above social equality, often criticised by socialists
How Wealthy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Capitalist comes from capital, meaning 'money used for business'. A capitalist is therefore a person who puts that money into companies to try to make a profit.