CAPITALIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capitalist mean? 

• CAPITALIST (noun)
  The noun CAPITALIST has 2 senses:

1. a conservative advocate of capitalism

2. a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)

  Familiarity information: CAPITALIST used as a noun is rare.

• CAPITALIST (adjective)
  The adjective CAPITALIST has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to capitalism or capitalists

2. favoring or practicing capitalism

  Familiarity information: CAPITALIST used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPITALIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conservative advocate of capitalism

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("capitalist" is a kind of...):

conservative; conservativist (a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas)

Derivation:

capitalism (an economic system based on private ownership of capital)

capitalist (favoring or practicing capitalism)

capitalist (of or relating to capitalism or capitalists)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("capitalist" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Domain category:

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capitalist"):

bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)

financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)

bearer; holder (the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it)

investor (someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns)

materialist (someone with great regard for material possessions)

moneymaker (someone who is successful in accumulating wealth)

profiteer (someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply))

Instance hyponyms:

Astor; John Jacob Astor (United States capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (1763-1848))

Derivation:

capital (wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value)

capital (assets available for use in the production of further assets)

• CAPITALIST (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

capitalist; capitalistic

Context example:

capitalistic methods and incentives

Pertainym:

capitalism (an economic system based on private ownership of capital)

Derivation:

capitalist (a conservative advocate of capitalism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Favoring or practicing capitalism

Synonyms:

capitalist; capitalistic

Similar:

bourgeois ((according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class)

competitive; free-enterprise; private-enterprise (subscribing to capitalistic competition)

individualistic; laissez-faire (with minimally restricted freedom in commerce)

Derivation:

capitalist (a conservative advocate of capitalism)

 Context examples 

Or if the venture capitalist didn’t send the funds promised, you may have to start looking all over again.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

If you are self-employed or need money to invest in your business, your bank or a venture capitalist will likely give you the funds to start-up or expand, without the often too-stringent terms.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Saturn’s presence at eclipse time reveals you are inclined to have a disciplined approach, and Pluto’s opposition to the moon suggests you might have stringent terms from your lender or venture capitalist.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You may want advice on taxes (now that you are heading into a new bracket), how to write a business plan, how to raise money from venture capitalists, or how to qualify for a line of credit from a bank.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I have forgotten their names—Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would confess themselves to be.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)