cap·i·tal·ist
ˈka-pə-tə-list 
ˈkap-tə-
1
: a person who has capital especially invested in business
industrial capitalists
2
: a person who favors capitalism
variants
or capitalistic
ˌka-pə-tə-ˈli-stik
ˌkap-tə-
1
: owning capital
the capitalist class
2
a
: practicing or advocating capitalism
capitalist nations
b
: marked by capitalism
capitalist period of history
Examples of capitalist in a Sentence
Noun
capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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Dr. Ekta Dang, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Whether the bureau is rendered toothless by its new leadership or abolished by congressional action, its emergence as a target for conservative ire has been years in the making, boosted most recently by technology executives including Elon Musk and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2025
Emily Eakin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Money is the bedrock of our capitalist system, but recent moves from the Trump administration have made that foundation feel a bit squishier.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Venture capitalists and founders have been actively debating the impact of DeepSeek on Silicon Valley.
—Dr. Ekta Dang, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
Whether the bureau is rendered toothless by its new leadership or abolished by congressional action, its emergence as a target for conservative ire has been years in the making, boosted most recently by technology executives including Elon Musk and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.
—Rob Wile, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
According to theory, words referred not to the world they were tasked with representing but only to other words in a ruthless system where meaning was elusive, reality an illusion and the self a romantic fiction perpetrated by the capitalist bourgeoisie.
—Emily Eakin, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
Money is the bedrock of our capitalist system, but recent moves from the Trump administration have made that foundation feel a bit squishier.
—Felix Salmon, Axios, 14 Feb. 2025
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalist. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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