as in haves
a wealthy person
capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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Recent Examples of capitalists
Property Play covers new and evolving opportunities for the real estate investor, from individuals to venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, institutional investors and large public companies.
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Diana Olick, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
The result of skilled labor, universities, banks and existing industry bonding together becomes clear in many ways, including, of course, a top layer of entrepreneurs and capitalists owning and deploying billions of Swiss Francs.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
That requires South African businesses hiring Nigerian engineers, Egyptian venture capitalists funding Ethiopian startups, entrepreneurs in the diaspora building talent pipelines across the continent.
—Emeka Ajene, semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
The event drew about 1,200 health care practitioners, industry executives, venture capitalists, medical researchers and tech innovators from across the country, as well as Ireland and England, to the Country Music Hall of Fame in downtown Nashville.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025
Whereas constant capital refers to the expenditures capitalists make for material means of production, variable capital refers to their expenses for human labor-power.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
They have been denounced as lecherous predators and as omnipotent conspirators, as arch-Bolsheviks and arch-capitalists.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Having secured both monopolies and monopsonies, tech companies behave more like rapacious rentiers than proper capitalists.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
This democratization effect is so pronounced that venture capitalists noted funding patterns where companies received significant investment despite having no proprietary technology beyond API integration.
—Sajal Singh, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Diana Olick, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2025
The result of skilled labor, universities, banks and existing industry bonding together becomes clear in many ways, including, of course, a top layer of entrepreneurs and capitalists owning and deploying billions of Swiss Francs.
—Peter Vanham, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
That requires South African businesses hiring Nigerian engineers, Egyptian venture capitalists funding Ethiopian startups, entrepreneurs in the diaspora building talent pipelines across the continent.
—Emeka Ajene, semafor.com, 29 Sep. 2025
The event drew about 1,200 health care practitioners, industry executives, venture capitalists, medical researchers and tech innovators from across the country, as well as Ireland and England, to the Country Music Hall of Fame in downtown Nashville.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 29 Sep. 2025
Whereas constant capital refers to the expenditures capitalists make for material means of production, variable capital refers to their expenses for human labor-power.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
They have been denounced as lecherous predators and as omnipotent conspirators, as arch-Bolsheviks and arch-capitalists.
—Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Having secured both monopolies and monopsonies, tech companies behave more like rapacious rentiers than proper capitalists.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
This democratization effect is so pronounced that venture capitalists noted funding patterns where companies received significant investment despite having no proprietary technology beyond API integration.
—Sajal Singh, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalists
Noun
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These aren't nice-to-haves anymore.—
Jaime Catmull,
Forbes.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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It’s been a year of haves and have-nots for the industrials, with companies heavily tied to data center construction, electrification, power generation, and aerospace largely outperforming the rest of the sector.—
Jeff Marks,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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As a warning to plutocrats, a guillotine is hard to beat, but its symbolism goes beyond the obvious.—
Paul Kingsnorth,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Is intuitive budgeting effective for saving money?—
Andreina Rodriguez,
CNBC,
1 Oct. 2025
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With less money being invested by record labels into touring, that has created a top-heavy artist hierarchy, with the rich getting richer and the poor and middle class falling by the wayside.—
Roy Trakin,
Rolling Stone,
1 Oct. 2025
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“Capitalists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalists. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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