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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Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
In its proxy filing, filed Monday, Paramount said that attorney Mary Boies, former judge Roanne Sragow Licht and venture capitalist Charles Ryan have been nominated to join its board.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2025
Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
The previous approaches to literary works were now suspect, and new questions came to the fore: about their status as commodities in a capitalist system; about the text itself as part of a power struggle and language as an expression of the unconscious.
—Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025
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Noun
One example was Bill Schleyer, an experienced executive and venture capitalist with an MBA from Harvard, who became chair and CEO of Adelphia Communications.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 10 June 2025
In its proxy filing, filed Monday, Paramount said that attorney Mary Boies, former judge Roanne Sragow Licht and venture capitalist Charles Ryan have been nominated to join its board.
—Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 2 June 2025
Adjective
Any President attempting to orchestrate a global system like the one during the Gilded Age would have faced a capitalist revolt.
—Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
The previous approaches to literary works were now suspect, and new questions came to the fore: about their status as commodities in a capitalist system; about the text itself as part of a power struggle and language as an expression of the unconscious.
—Eric Bulson, The Atlantic, 16 June 2025
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalist. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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