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Meaning of capitalist in English

Table of contents
  1. Pronunciation
  2. Noun
    1. Definitions
  3. Qualitative Adjective
    1. Definitions
  1. Pronunciation

    /ˈkæpədləst/

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  1. Noun

    capitalist

    Definitions

    1. a conservative advocate of capitalism
  2. 2. a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business)
  3. Qualitative Adjective

    capitalist

    Definitions

    1. of or relating to capitalism or capitalists

    Examples

    • « a capitalist nation »
    • « capitalistic methods and incentives »
  4. 2. favoring or practicing capitalism

    Synonyms

    • bourgeois
    • competitive
    • free-enterprise(a)
    • private-enterprise(a)
    • individualistic
    • laissez-faire(a)

    Antonyms

    • socialistic
    • socialist

Famous quotes

  • « Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners. »
    Vladimir Lenin
  • « The proletarian woman fights hand in hand with the man of her class against capitalist society. »
    Clara Zetkin
  • « Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. »
    Karl Marx
  • « The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. »
    James Connolly
  • « We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization. »
    Herbert Read

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