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
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Noun
capitalists who lost everything in the '29 Crash
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Will Knight, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
The issue was recently catapulted into mainstream consciousness by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen's appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast.
—Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Almost all of the Black spokespeople in symbolic capitalist spaces are either mixed race or recent immigrant Black heritage.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024
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Noun
The Trump administration will be heavily influenced by this zero sum narrative, given the prominent role that will be played by technology leaders and venture capitalists.
—Will Knight, WIRED, 15 Jan. 2025
The issue was recently catapulted into mainstream consciousness by venture capitalist Marc Andreessen's appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast.
—Billy Bambrough, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
The emergence of a capitalist market economy put ever greater demand on quantification (the act of counting or measuring the quantity of something), calculation and bookkeeping skills.
—James Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024
Almost all of the Black spokespeople in symbolic capitalist spaces are either mixed race or recent immigrant Black heritage.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalist. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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