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CAPITALIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
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)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Favoring or practicing capitalism
Synonyms:
capitalist; capitalistic
Classified under:
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists
Example:
capitalistic methods and incentives
Synonyms:
capitalist; capitalistic
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
capitalism (an economic system based on private ownership of capital)
Derivation:
capitalist (a conservative advocate of capitalism)
