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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Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
That includes David Sacks, a venture capitalist who is now Trump’s crypto and AI czar, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik.
—Ben Walsh, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2025
News Desk, Artforum, 13 Mar. 2025
Meli's critique extends to modern feminism, too, which some of her subscribers commented had been co-opted by capitalist ideals that pressure women to work constantly.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
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Noun
Vance previously worked as a corporate lawyer and venture capitalists prior to taking up public office.
—Mark Davis, Newsweek, 14 Mar. 2025
That includes David Sacks, a venture capitalist who is now Trump’s crypto and AI czar, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik.
—Ben Walsh, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
On the one hand, their blurring of genres, their fusion of architecture, art, and media, is part of a postmodernism that today has precious little purchase left on capitalist modernity—indeed, that fronts for that modernity as much as anything else.
—News Desk, Artforum, 13 Mar. 2025
Meli's critique extends to modern feminism, too, which some of her subscribers commented had been co-opted by capitalist ideals that pressure women to work constantly.
—Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
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“Capitalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalist. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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