Capitalist
['kæpɪt(ə)lɪst] or ['kæpɪtəlɪst]
Definition
(noun.) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business).
(noun.) a conservative advocate of capitalism.
(adj.) of or relating to capitalism or capitalists; 'a capitalist nation'; 'capitalistic methods and incentives' .
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Definition
(n.) One who has capital; one who has money for investment, or money invested; esp. a person of large property, which is employed in business.
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Examples
- The _personnel_ becomes the collective capitalist. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The slave-owner can whip his refractory slave to death,--the capitalist can starve him to death. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The capitalist and aristocrat of England cannot feel that as we do, because they do not mingle with the class they degrade as we do. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The town was also the chief capitalist; as a seller of annuities on lives and inheritances it was a banker and enjoyed unlimited credit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He replied, A capitalist,--an Insurer of Ships. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The German invention, displayed by Herr Schorl, a capitalist of Berlin, is in many respects like the English one. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It says as plainly to the private capitalist system: Mend, show more understanding, and a better and a stronger will for the common welfare, or go. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Now thou art another capitalist more. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- What, he asked, would be the outcome of the class war of the capitalist and proletariat? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Mr Lammle, himself a man of business as well as a capitalist. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This would be the end of the capitalist system, but not the end of the system of capitalism. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He was the first capitalist to back individually Edison's experiments in electric railways. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Capitalists and manufacturers had been rendered so conservative by the large loss of money in the Roxbury Company, that they were disinclined to have anything further to do with it. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Capitalists did not violate the public conscience of America; they expressed it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Confronted with the deep insurgency of labor what do capitalists and their spokesmen do? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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