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单词 capitalist
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capitalist
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Someone who hopes to profit by investing money or financing business ventures is a capitalist. A nation's economy is described as capitalist if it's based on private ownership and profit.
The word capitalist appeared in 1791, taken from the French word capitaliste. A capitalist is someone who believes in the economic philosophy of Capitalism, a system of privately-owned, for-profit businesses. A capitalist might believe in free enterprise and the individual’s ability to gain wealth through intelligence and hard work. Capitalist can also be used to describe a self-interested, every-man-for-himself approach to the world.
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“Venture capitalists say, ‘Hey, it’s great, but I only do biotech.’
New York Times(Dec 29, 2016)
The valuations created a chasm between what venture capitalists bet a company would be worth and what IPO investors are willing to pay.
Los Angeles Times(Dec 27, 2016)
BERKELEY, Calif. — A decade ago, a group of biologists, venture capitalists and computer whizzes gathered under the name “clean tech.”
New York Times(Dec 27, 2016)
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1adj of or relating to capitalism or capitalists
a capitalist nation
Syn
capitalistic
2adj favoring or practicing capitalism
Syn|Ant
capitalistic
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
socialist, socialistic
advocating or following the socialist principles
collective
set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government
collectivised, collectivist, collectivistic, collectivized, state-controlled
subscribing to the socialistic doctrine of ownership by the people collectively
left
of or belonging to the political or intellectual left
3n a conservative advocate of capitalism
Hyper
conservative, conservativist
a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas
2
n a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
Exp|Hypo|Hyper
John Jacob Astor
United States capitalist (born in Germany) who made a fortune in fur trading (1763-1848)
Bernard Mannes Baruch
economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965)
James Buchanan Brady
United States financier noted for his love of diamonds and his extravagant lifestyle (1856-1917)
Andrew Carnegie
United States industrialist and philanthropist who endowed education and public libraries and research trusts (1835-1919)
Jay Cooke
United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905)
Peter Cooper
United States industrialist who built the first American locomotive; founded Cooper Union in New York City to offer free courses in the arts and sciences (1791-1883)
Ezra Cornell
United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874)
Cosimo de Medici
Italian financier and statesman and friend of the papal court (1389-1464)
Glenn Hammond Curtiss
United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930)
Gottlieb Daimler
German engineer and automobile manufacturer who produced the first high-speed internal combustion engine (1834-1900)
John Deere
United States industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)
George Eastman
United States inventor of a dry-plate process of developing photographic film and of flexible film (his firm introduced roll film) and of the box camera and of a process for color photography (1854-1932)
Henry Ford
United States manufacturer of automobiles who pioneered mass production (1863-1947)
Edsel Bryant Ford
son of Henry Ford (1893-1943)
Henry Ford II
grandson of Henry Ford (1917-1987)
Henry Clay Frick
United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (1849-1919)
William Henry Gates
United States computer entrepreneur whose software company made him the youngest multi-billionaire in the history of the United States (born in 1955)
King Camp Gilette
United States inventor and manufacturer who developed the safety razor (1855-1932)
Stephen Girard
United States financier (born in France) who helped finance the War of 1812 (1750-1831)
Jay Gould
United States financier who gained control of the Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted to corner the gold market (1836-1892)
Sir Thomas Gresham
English financier (1519-1579)
Meyer Guggenheim
United States industrialist (born in Switzerland) who with his sons established vast mining and metal processing companies (1828-1905)
Edward Henry Harriman
United States railway tycoon (1848-1909)
William Averell Harriman
United States financier who negotiated a treaty with the Soviet Union banning tests of nuclear weapons (1891-1986)
Charles Henry Harrod
English merchant who took over a shop in London that was expanded by his son into a prestigious department store (1800-1885)
Charles Digby Harrod
English merchant who expanded his father's shop in London into a prestigious department store (1841-1905)
Henry John Heinz
United States industrialist who manufactured and sold processed foods (1844-1919)
James Jerome Hill
United States railroad tycoon (1838-1916)
William Henry Hoover
United States industrialist who manufactured vacuum cleaners (1849-1932)
Johns Hopkins
United States financier and philanthropist who left money to found the university and hospital that bear his name in Baltimore (1795-1873)
Howard Robard Hughes
United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)
Collis Potter Huntington
United States railroad executive who built the western section of the first United States transcontinental railroad (1821-1900)
Friedrich Krupp
German industrialist who manufactured steel in Essen (1787-1826)
Edwin Herbert Land
United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
First Baron Marks of Broughton
English businessman who created a retail chain (1888-1964)
Andrew William Mellon
United States financier and philanthropist (1855-1937)
John Pierpont Morgan
United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913)
Robert Morris
leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806)
First Viscount Nuffield
British industrialist who manufactured automobiles and created a philanthropic foundation (1877-1963)
Wilhelm von Opel
German industrialist who was the first in Germany to use an assembly line in manufacturing automobiles (1871-1948)
Elisha Graves Otis
United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861)
Robert Owen
Welsh industrialist and social reformer who founded cooperative communities (1771-1858)
Sir Frederick Handley Page
English industrialist who pioneered in the design and manufacture of aircraft (1885-1962)
Cecil John Rhodes
British colonial financier and statesman in South Africa; made a fortune in gold and diamond mining; helped colonize the territory now known as Zimbabwe; he endowed annual fellowships for British Commonwealth and United States students to study at Oxford University (1853-1902)
John Davison Rockefeller
United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)
Rothschild
any of family of powerful Jewish bankers in Europe
Haym Salomon
American financier and American Revolutionary War patriot who helped fund the army during the American Revolution (1740?-1785)
David Sarnoff
United States businessman who pioneered in radio and television broadcasting (1891-1971)
Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky
United States industrialist (born in Russia) who designed the first four-engine airplane and the first mass-produced helicopter (1889-1972)
Sir Clive Marles Sinclair
English electrical engineer who founded a company that introduced many innovative products (born in 1940)
Ernest Solvay
Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922)
Leland Stanford
United States railroad executive and founder of Stanford University (1824-1893)
George Stephenson
English railway pioneer who built the first passenger railway in 1825 (1781-1848)
Commodore Vanderbilt
United States financier who accumulated great wealth from railroad and shipping businesses (1794-1877)
Henry Villard
United States railroad magnate and businessman (1835-1900)
John Wanamaker
United States businessman whose business grew into one of the first department stores (1838-1922)
Aaron Montgomery Ward
United States businessman who in 1872 established a successful mail-order business (1843-1913)
Frank Winfield Woolworth
United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919)
Rudolf Wurlitzer
United States businessman (born in German) who founded a company to make pipe organs (1831-1914)
William Maxwell Aitken
British newspaper publisher and politician (born in Canada); confidant of Winston Churchill (1879-1964)
Alfred Charles William Harmsworth
British newspaper publisher (1865-1922)
Benjamin Harris
publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713)
William Randolph Hearst
United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism (1863-1951)
Joseph Pulitzer
United States newspaper publisher (born in Hungary) who established the Pulitzer prizes (1847-1911)
James Edmund Scripps
United States newspaper publisher and half-brother of Edward Wyllis Scripps (1835-1908)
Edward Wyllis Scripps
United States newspaper publisher who founded an important press association; half-brother of James Edmund Scripps (1854-1926)
Gustavus Franklin Swift
United States meat-packer who began the use of refrigerated railroad cars (1839-1903)
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 material possessions
moneymaker
someone who is successful in accumulating wealth
profiteer
someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply)
contrarian
an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors
accountant, comptroller, controller
someone who maintains and audits business accounts
account executive, account representative, customer's broker, customer's man, registered representative
someone in charge of a client's account for an advertising agency or brokerage or other service business
agent, broker, factor
a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission
banker
a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank
bear
an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price
bondholder
a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation
bull
an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
businessman, man of affairs
a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive)
businesswoman
a female businessperson
caller
an investor who buys a call option
city man
a financier who works in one of the banks in the City of London
depositor
a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution
enterpriser, entrepreneur
someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it
exporter
a businessperson who transports goods abroad (for sale)
importer
someone whose business involves importing goods from outside (especially from a foreign country)
lender, loaner
someone who lends money or gives credit in business matters
merchandiser, merchant
a businessperson engaged in retail trade
moneygrubber
someone whose main interest in life is moneymaking
dealer, principal
the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
rentier
someone whose income is from property rents or bond interest and other investments
shipper
someone who ships goods
shareholder, shareowner, stockholder
someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation
provider, supplier
someone whose business is to supply a particular service or commodity
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul
a human being
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