capitalists

plural of capitalist

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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. Diana Olick, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025 Indeed, Schiffmann was more prone to citing postmodernist aphorisms and artists than famous venture capitalists and tech founders. Matteo Wong, The Atlantic, 6 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 In purchasing labor-power as a commodity, capitalists claim temporal control over living labor in the process of production. Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025 Left-wing antisemitism, which cast Jews as greedy capitalists, existed as well, especially in France, but Jew-baiting remained primarily a right-wing pursuit, the work of illiberal nativists who saw a tiny minority as polluting the purity of their racial or religious communities. Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for capitalists
Noun
  • Shoppers will buy the must haves for their kids, but the ‘nice-to-haves’ for themselves?
    Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
  • These aren't nice-to-haves anymore.
    Jaime Catmull, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • While Republicans focus on cozying up to tech plutocrats and removing the barriers around their business models, Democrats could revive the 2020 messaging of candidates like Andrew Yang and Elizabeth Warren.
    Nathan E. Sanders, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • In the end, Krantz added, adopting a more strategic approach ultimately benefits customers, allowing companies to use their time and money more effectively by learning from the successes of others.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • The Raiders have had three regimes pay really good money for three consecutive veteran quarterbacks who have been abominable.
    Vic Tafur, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Capitalists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capitalists. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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