cap·i·tal·ist
ˈka-pə-tə-list 
ˈkap-tə-
1
: a person who has capital especially invested in business
industrial capitalists
2
: a person who favors capitalism
variants
or capitalistic
ˌka-pə-tə-ˈli-stik
ˌkap-tə-
1
: owning capital
the capitalist class
2
a
: practicing or advocating capitalism
capitalist nations
b
: marked by capitalism
capitalist period of history
Synonyms
Examples of capitalist in a Sentence
Noun
capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
Recent Examples on the Web
Jason Mast, STAT, 15 Apr. 2024
There are venture capitalists; these are some of the larger animals and very difficult to catch.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2024
Before the bombs dropped, those who supported America’s fight abroad — and companies like Vault-Tec, which profited from it — were labeled warmongers and evil capitalists.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2024
China venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee believes Chinese AI firms are well positioned to radically narrow the gap with U.S. competitors, in part because of their open-source and more energy-efficient approach.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
After giving birth to her second daughter with husband Alexis Ohanian last August, the 42-year-old athlete has had time to contemplate her next move off the court, and has kept busy as a venture capitalist, investing in new companies.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
Sam Altman’s company, established merely eight years ago as a competitor to Google’s DeepMind, likely remains loss-making, and savvy venture capitalists and private equity investors reportedly valued it last month at a little over $80 billion during its most recent round of fundraising.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Asia, 28 Mar. 2024
Huffman’s fellow co-founder, venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian, isn’t listed among the investors with stakes of 5% or more and isn’t named elsewhere in the filings.
—Ryan Gould, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
There, a venture capitalist named Jason Palmer garnered 51 votes — more than Biden’s 40 votes, and enough to propel him to victory.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
Graeber blamed bureaucratic risk aversion and corporations concerned only with short-term capitalist incentives.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Whatever your dates, the idea is that modernity generally refers to the post-medieval world—a world that gradually became more rational, urban, industrial, individualistic, secular, capitalist, and liberal.
—Hazlitt, 10 Apr. 2024
As Ethiopia transitioned from an agrarian peasant society to a fast-developing capitalist economy in the new millennium, ethnic boundaries sometimes clashed with the growth of cities grew and with the movements of a mobile workforce.
—Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2024
This gave them an essential role and stake in both a pluralistic democracy and a capitalist economy — without being subject to the whims of politics or industry.
—Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
Carter himself is in on this action, as an investor in the salad chain Sweetgreen, trading the era of black tie and tails, of steak, lobster, and bottle service, spending stupid money with your glamorous friends in public, to a capitalist endgame of accumulating interest by the açai bowl.
—Abe Beame, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
Fueled by huge technological advances in recent years and gobs of venture capitalist money, AI has become one of the hottest corporate buzzwords.
—Kevin Schaul, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
Now, tenants include Spotify, the accounting firm PwC and the venture capitalist Founders Fund.
—Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
Noun
Nearly a decade ago, venture capitalist Bob Nelsen called industry veteran Vicki Sato to pitch her on launching a large company dedicated to tackling the world’s worst pathogens.
—Jason Mast, STAT, 15 Apr. 2024
There are venture capitalists; these are some of the larger animals and very difficult to catch.
—Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Apr. 2024
Before the bombs dropped, those who supported America’s fight abroad — and companies like Vault-Tec, which profited from it — were labeled warmongers and evil capitalists.
—Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 10 Apr. 2024
China venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee believes Chinese AI firms are well positioned to radically narrow the gap with U.S. competitors, in part because of their open-source and more energy-efficient approach.
—Diane Brady, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2024
After giving birth to her second daughter with husband Alexis Ohanian last August, the 42-year-old athlete has had time to contemplate her next move off the court, and has kept busy as a venture capitalist, investing in new companies.
—Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
Sam Altman’s company, established merely eight years ago as a competitor to Google’s DeepMind, likely remains loss-making, and savvy venture capitalists and private equity investors reportedly valued it last month at a little over $80 billion during its most recent round of fundraising.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Asia, 28 Mar. 2024
Huffman’s fellow co-founder, venture capitalist Alexis Ohanian, isn’t listed among the investors with stakes of 5% or more and isn’t named elsewhere in the filings.
—Ryan Gould, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
There, a venture capitalist named Jason Palmer garnered 51 votes — more than Biden’s 40 votes, and enough to propel him to victory.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
Adjective
The Top 10 Fashion Moments of 2023 Galliano has long referenced the links between fashion and the formation of capitalist societies.
—TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
Graeber blamed bureaucratic risk aversion and corporations concerned only with short-term capitalist incentives.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
Whatever your dates, the idea is that modernity generally refers to the post-medieval world—a world that gradually became more rational, urban, industrial, individualistic, secular, capitalist, and liberal.
—Hazlitt, 10 Apr. 2024
As Ethiopia transitioned from an agrarian peasant society to a fast-developing capitalist economy in the new millennium, ethnic boundaries sometimes clashed with the growth of cities grew and with the movements of a mobile workforce.
—Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 8 Apr. 2024
This gave them an essential role and stake in both a pluralistic democracy and a capitalist economy — without being subject to the whims of politics or industry.
—Pamela Paul, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2024
Carter himself is in on this action, as an investor in the salad chain Sweetgreen, trading the era of black tie and tails, of steak, lobster, and bottle service, spending stupid money with your glamorous friends in public, to a capitalist endgame of accumulating interest by the açai bowl.
—Abe Beame, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2024
Fueled by huge technological advances in recent years and gobs of venture capitalist money, AI has become one of the hottest corporate buzzwords.
—Kevin Schaul, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
Now, tenants include Spotify, the accounting firm PwC and the venture capitalist Founders Fund.
—Isabella Kwai, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalist. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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