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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Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024
The race divided Silicon Valley: venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman backed Harris, investor David Sacks and Tesla founder and X social media owner Elon Musk backed Trump.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 31 Oct. 2024
Ganja & Hess centers on an anthropologist who turns vampire after being stabbed with a cursed dagger, but Gunn was not interested in appeasing the capitalist appetite for another blaxploitation piece in the early ’70s.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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Noun
And this kind of tension has been with the symbolic capitalists from the beginning.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 9 Nov. 2024
The race divided Silicon Valley: venture capitalist Vinod Khosla and LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman backed Harris, investor David Sacks and Tesla founder and X social media owner Elon Musk backed Trump.
—Julia Prodis Sulek, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
Adjective
The tough, gangsta image that defined late ’80s and early ’90s hip-hop had now been sanded down into something more aspirational and decidedly capitalist.
—Kyndall Cunningham, Vox, 31 Oct. 2024
Ganja & Hess centers on an anthropologist who turns vampire after being stabbed with a cursed dagger, but Gunn was not interested in appeasing the capitalist appetite for another blaxploitation piece in the early ’70s.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalist. Accessed 24 Nov. 2024.
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