[ US /ˈkæpətəɫɪst/ ]
[ UK /kˈæpɪtəlˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a conservative advocate of capitalism
  2. a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to capitalism or capitalists
    a capitalist nation
    capitalistic methods and incentives
  2. favoring or practicing capitalism
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How To Use capitalist In A Sentence

  • The state has also passed laws that are inimical to the short-term interests of particular capitalists, but necessary in the longer-term interests of capitalism itself - for example, health and safety legislation.
  • The main axis of stratification in capitalist societies is the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • This role of film as an instance of mass media is opposed to that of Adorno, who could only conceptualise the mass media as a means of stupefying the masses in a capitalist society.
  • Open source software is often portrayed as a breakthrough in the free and open exchange of intellectual property, without precedent in the prevailing global capitalist mentality.
  • Both neo-colonial and advanced capitalist/colonial states organize and reinforce a cathectic structure based in sexual difference, which they enforce through a variety of means, including legislation.
  • The capitalist who, alone or in conjunction with his fellows, performs some great industrial feat by which he wins money is a welldoer, not a wrongdoer, provided only he works in proper and legitimate lines. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
  • Imperialism was not just about colonialism, but the shape of capitalist competition.
  • In Seattle at the very end of the 20th century a new anti-capitalist movement was born.
  • It just shows that capitalists will turn to anything to make profits.
  • Johann Fust , a local venture capitalist, loaned him 800 guilders in 1450.
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