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capitalist en · ADJ

Pronunciation

/ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/
(Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree substratebor.? Proto-Indo-European *kap-? Proto-Indo-European *kap- Proto-Indo-European *káput Proto-Italic *kaput Latin caput Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin capitālisbor. Old French capitalbor. Middle English capital English capital Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist ▲ French capitalistecalq. English capitalist From capital + -ist. Calque of French capitaliste.

Meanings

Of, or pertaining to, capitalism.
- This is a capitalist society. It’s a fatalistic mantra that seems to get repeated to anyone who questions why America can’t be more fair or equal. But around the world, there are many types of capitalist societies, ranging from liberating to exploitative, protective to abusive, democratic to unregulated. 2019 August 14, Matthew Desmond, “In order to understand the brutality of American capitalism, you have to start on the plantation”, in New York Times:
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair. 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162:
- capitalist economy
- capitalist countries
Supporting or endorsing capitalism.
- Well, I thank you for your question, but I have to say we're capitalist—and that is just the way it is. However, we do think that capitalism is not necessarily meeting the needs with the income inequality that we have in our country. 2017 January 30, CNN Town Hall, spoken by Nancy Pelosi, via CNN:
(nonstandard, qualifier:especially during the Cold War) American.

Forms

Spelling	Features	Labels	Source
more capitalist	Degree=Cmp		lexicographic
most capitalist	Degree=Sup		lexicographic

Antonyms

Communist · Socialist · socialist · anticapitalist · communist

Synonyms

capitalistic

Translations (40)

sv kapitalistisk (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · vo katädimik (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · it capitalista (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · ru капиталисти́ческий (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · fr capitaliste (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · ga rachmasaíoch (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · uk капіталісти́чний (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · gd calpach (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · pl kapitalistyczny (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · izh kapitalisticeskoi (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · gv bun-argidagh (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · ur سرمایہ دار (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · tr kapitalist (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · nn kapitalistisk (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · mk капиталистички (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · cs kapitalistický (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · nl kapitalistisch (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · mr भांडवलशाही (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · es capitalista (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · hi पूंजीपति (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · ur سرمایہ دارنی (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · de kapitalistisch (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · el καπιταλιστής (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · ro capitalist (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · ga caipitlíoch (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · da kapitalistisk (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · ca capitalista (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · yi קאַפּיטאַליסטיש (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · el καπιταλίστρια (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · fi kapitalistinen (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · eo kapitalisma (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · fi porvarillinen (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · nb kapitalistisk (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · it capitalistico (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · mi angahaorawa (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · hy կապիտալիստական (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · pa سرمائےدار (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · be капіталісты́чны (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · pt capitalista (supporting or endorsing capitalism) · pa ਸਰਮਾਏਦਾਰ (supporting or endorsing capitalism)

capitalist en · NOUN

Pronunciation

/ˈkæp.ɪ.tə.lɪst/
(Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Meanings

The owner of a considerable amount of capital; a wealthy person.
- He paid out, and received on account of the Government, thousands of dollars daily; and the mere handling of such considerable sums made him feel as if he were a great capitalist. 2000, John W. De Forest, Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secessions to Loyalty:
- Were a wealthy English capitalist to dispose of the property that belongs to him in Êngland, which has been realised by former industry, and take it to Van Diemen's Land, where he could have land for nothing, he would probably discover that he had made no very judicious change. 1824, John Rooke, An Inquiry into the Principles of National Wealth, page 90:
- Very little of capital acquired in commerce is directed towards agriculture, save where a wealthy capitalist purchases lands for his own use; but it is seldom, if ever, applied to the improvement of the country, in the hands of the original landholders. 1818, Edward Cooke, “Thought on the Expedency ^([sic]) of Repealing the Usury Laws”, in The Pamphleteer, volume 13, number 25:
- The capitalist, often the mere inheritor of wealth, the lucky finder or purchaser of a mine, or a successful gambler in the cereals necessary to life, human and animal, can not boast of his superior power 1882, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal, volume 16, page 337:
- It has been said that I kept a small account with Hobson Brothers, to whose bank I went, and entered the parlour with that trepidation which most poor men feel on presenting themselves before City magnates and capitalists. 1854-1855, William Thackeray, “XLVIII. In which Benedick is a Married Man”, in The Newcomes:
Someone whose wealth (capital) is invested in business ventures in order to return a profit.
- “I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity.[…]” 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
- As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus labour. 1906 [1867], Karl Marx, chapter X, in Edward Aveling, Samuel Moore, transl., edited by Friedrich Engels, Capital, volume 1, page 257:
- The labourers do only receive, and ever have only received, as much as will subsist them, the landlords receive the surplus produce of the more fertile soils, and all the rest of the whole produce of labour in this and in every country goes to the capitalist under the name of profit for the use of his capital. 1922 [1825], Thomas Hodgskin with G. D. H. Cole, Labour Defended against the Claims of Capital, published 1828, page 31:
- The separation was made complete between the means of production concentrated in the hands of the capitalists, on the one side, and the producers, possessing nothing but their labor-power, on the other. 1907 [1880], Friedrich Engels, chapter III, in Edward Aveling, transl., Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, page 55:
- That is all that is asked; and no capitalist in New England can make one quarter on capital in ordinary investments, on what can be made upon Chicago real estate. 1871, John Stephen Wright, Wright's Proposition to a Chicago Railway Capitalist, page 40:
- Near-synonyms: businessman, financier, industrialist
- Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards. 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 62:
A person who is a supporter of capitalism.
- In a world of cheap airfares, laptops, and the Internet, we proudly regard mobility as a sign of how advanced we are. Hey, we're nomadic hipster capitalists! 2007 December 20, Clive Thompson, “Clive Thompson on How the Next Victim of Climate Change Will Be Our Minds”, in Wired Magazine, number 16.01, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:

Forms

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capitalists	Number=Plur		lexicographic

Translations (68)

sw bepari (supporter of capitalism) · ru капитали́ст (owner of capital) · de Kapitalist (supporter of capitalism) · fr capitaliste (supporter of capitalism) · nl kapitalist (owner of capital) · hi पूंजीवादी (supporter of capitalism) · vo hikatädan (owner of capital) · nl kapitalist (supporter of capitalism) · vo jikatädan (owner of capital) · cmn 資本家 /资本家 (owner of capital) · ko 자본가 (owner of capital) · ro capitalist (supporter of capitalism) · vo jikatädiman (supporter of capitalism) · gd calpaire (owner of capital) · sv kapitalist (supporter of capitalism) · de Kapitalist (owner of capital) · el κεφαλαιοκράτης (owner of capital) · yi קאַפּיטאַליסט (supporter of capitalism) · pa ਪੂੰਜੀਵਾਦੀ (supporter of capitalism) · ro capitalistă (owner of capital) · vo katädiman (supporter of capitalism) · sv kapitalist (owner of capital) · id kaum modal (owner of capital) · fi porvari (supporter of capitalism) · ga rachmasaí (supporter of capitalism) · de Kapitalistin (owner of capital) · pt capitalista (supporter of capitalism) · vo katädan (owner of capital) · ja 資本家 (owner of capital) · pt capitalista (owner of capital) · kk капиталшы (owner of capital) · az sərmayəçi (owner of capital) · crh kapitalist (supporter of capitalism) · th นักทุนนิยม (supporter of capitalism) · el καπιταλιστής (owner of capital) · gv bun-argidagh (supporter of capitalism) · el κεφαλαιοκράτισσα (owner of capital) · el καπιταλίστρια (owner of capital) · mk капитали́ст (supporter of capitalism) · sl kapitalist (supporter of capitalism) · nl kapitaliste (supporter of capitalism) · pa ਪੂੰਜੀਦਾਰ (owner of capital) · ga caipitlí (owner of capital) · ru капитали́ст (supporter of capitalism) · gd calpaire (supporter of capitalism) · ga caipitlí (supporter of capitalism) · sw bepari (owner of capital) · da kapitalist (owner of capital) · hi पूंजीपति (owner of capital) · de Kapitalistin (supporter of capitalism) · fi kapitalisti (supporter of capitalism) · id kapitalis (supporter of capitalism) · cs kapitalista (owner of capital) · vo hikatädiman (supporter of capitalism) · da kapitalist (supporter of capitalism) · fi kapitalisti (owner of capital) · ro capitalist (owner of capital) · pa ਪੂੰਜੀਪਤੀ (owner of capital) · mk капитали́ст (owner of capital) · pt capitalista (supporter of capitalism) · th นายทุน (owner of capital) · it capitalista (supporter of capitalism) · tr kapitalist (supporter of capitalism) · sl kapitalist (owner of capital) · ro capitalistă (supporter of capitalism) · ms kapitalis (supporter of capitalism) · mr भांडवलदार (owner of capital) · ga rachmasaí (owner of capital)

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capitalist en · ADJ

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capitalist en · NOUN

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