CAPITALIST
Dictionary entry overview: What does capitalist mean?
• CAPITALIST (noun)
The noun CAPITALIST has 2 senses:
1. a conservative advocate of capitalism
2. a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
Familiarity information: CAPITALIST used as a noun is rare.
• CAPITALIST (adjective)
The adjective CAPITALIST has 2 senses:
1. of or relating to capitalism or capitalists
2. favoring or practicing capitalism
Familiarity information: CAPITALIST used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CAPITALIST (noun)
Meaning:
A conservative advocate of capitalism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("capitalist" is a kind of...):
conservative; conservativist (a person who has conservative ideas or opinions)
Meaning:
A person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("capitalist" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Domain category:
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "capitalist"):
bourgeois; businessperson (a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise)
financier; moneyman (a person skilled in large scale financial transactions)
bearer; holder (the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it)
investor (someone who commits capital in order to gain financial returns)
materialist (someone with great regard for worldly possessions)
moneymaker (someone who is successful in accumulating wealth)
profiteer (someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply))
Instance hyponyms:
Astor; John Jacob Astor (United States capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (1763-1848))
• CAPITALIST (adjective)
Meaning:
Of or relating to capitalism or capitalists
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
capitalist; capitalistic
Context examples:
a capitalist nation / capitalistic methods and incentives
Pertainym:
capitalism (an economic system based on private ownership of capital)
Meaning:
Favoring or practicing capitalism
Synonyms:
capitalistic; capitalist
Similar:
bourgeois ((according to Marxist thought) being of the property-owning class and exploitive of the working class)
competitive; free-enterprise; private-enterprise (subscribing to capitalistic competition)
individualistic; laissez-faire (with minimally restricted freedom in commerce)
