capitalist
/ˈkapɪt(ə)lɪst
/noun
A person who uses their wealth to invest in trade and industry for profit in accordance with the principles of capitalism: the creation of the factory system by nineteenth-century capitalists...
- Investing capitalists came to feel that their wealth could go on expanding almost exponentially forever.
- The Marxist claim that capitalists must find investments overseas fails miserably.
- The transnational capitalist class is not made up of capitalists in the traditional Marxist sense.
Synonyms
financier, investor, industrialist;
magnate, tycoon, mogul, nabob;
plutocrat
informal fat cat, yuppie, money man, loadsamoney, moneybags
adjective
Supporting or based on the principles of capitalism: capitalist countries the global economy is essentially capitalist...
- It may be a little tawdry, but the whole of capitalist economics is based on selfishness and greed.
- Some form of free enterprise capitalist economy and some form of pluralist democracy were clearly called for.
- There probably is no Third World debt if we adopted just elementary capitalist principles.