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