capitalist
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *káput
Proto-Italic *kaput
Latin caput
Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin capitālisbor.
Old French capitalbor.
Middle English capital
English capital
Proto-Indo-European *-id-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti
Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō
Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)
Proto-Hellenic *-tās
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor.
Latin -istader.
Old French -istebor.
Middle English -ist
English -ist
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French capitalistecalq.
English capitalist
From capital + -ist. Calque of French capitaliste.
Inflected forms:
form: more capitalist
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most capitalist
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: capitalists
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Of, or pertaining to, capitalism.
pos: adj
examples: capitalist economy
capitalist countries
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
This is a capitalist society. It’s a fatalistic mantra that seems to get repeated to anyone who questions why America can’t be more fair or equal. But around the world, there are many types of capitalist societies, ranging from liberating to exploitative, protective to abusive, democratic to unregulated.
gloss: Supporting or endorsing capitalism.
pos: adj
examples: Well, I thank you for your question, but I have to say we're capitalist—and that is just the way it is. However, we do think that capitalism is not necessarily meeting the needs with the income inequality that we have in our country.
gloss: American.
pos: adj
tags: nonstandard
gloss: The owner of a considerable amount of capital; a wealthy person.
pos: noun
examples: Very little of capital acquired in commerce is directed towards agriculture, save where a wealthy capitalist purchases lands for his own use; but it is seldom, if ever, applied to the improvement of the country, in the hands of the original landholders.
Were a wealthy English capitalist to dispose of the property that belongs to him in Êngland, which has been realised by former industry, and take it to Van Diemen's Land, where he could have land for nothing, he would probably discover that he had made no very judicious change.
It has been said that I kept a small account with Hobson Brothers, to whose bank I went, and entered the parlour with that trepidation which most poor men feel on presenting themselves before City magnates and capitalists.
The capitalist, often the mere inheritor of wealth, the lucky finder or purchaser of a mine, or a successful gambler in the cereals necessary to life, human and animal, can not boast of his superior power
He paid out, and received on account of the Government, thousands of dollars daily; and the mere handling of such considerable sums made him feel as if he were a great capitalist.
gloss: Someone whose wealth (capital) is invested in business ventures in order to return a profit.
pos: noun
examples: Near-synonyms: businessman, financier, industrialist
The labourers do only receive, and ever have only received, as much as will subsist them, the landlords receive the surplus produce of the more fertile soils, and all the rest of the whole produce of labour in this and in every country goes to the capitalist under the name of profit for the use of his capital.
As capitalist, he is only capital personified. His soul is the soul of capital. But capital has one single life impulse, the tendency to create value and surplus-value, to make its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplus labour.
The separation was made complete between the means of production concentrated in the hands of the capitalists, on the one side, and the producers, possessing nothing but their labor-power, on the other.
That is all that is asked; and no capitalist in New England can make one quarter on capital in ordinary investments, on what can be made upon Chicago real estate.
“I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity.[…]”
Every rail company worth its salt wanted to connect with London. Interestingly, it was largely that way around - provincial entrepreneurs wanting to connect with the capital, rather than London capitalists seeking to spread outwards.
gloss: A person who is a supporter of capitalism.
pos: noun
examples: In a world of cheap airfares, laptops, and the Internet, we proudly regard mobility as a sign of how advanced we are. Hey, we're nomadic hipster capitalists!
Synonyms: capitalistic
Antonyms: anticapitalist
communist
Communist
socialist
Socialist
anti-capitalist
Related words: capital
capitalism
capitalize
chapiter
chapter
chattel
state capitalism
Derived words: anarchist capitalist
anarcho-capitalist
anarchocapitalist
anticapitalist
anti-capitalist
capitalist anarchism
capitalist anarchist
capitalist realism
capitalist roader
capitalist roadism
capitalist roadist
countercapitalist
crapitalist
crony capitalist
cybercapitalist
eco-capitalist
ecocapitalist
homocapitalist
hypercapitalist
late capitalist
neo-capitalist
neocapitalist
non-capitalist
noncapitalist
palaeocapitalist
palaeo-capitalist
paleo-capitalist
paleocapitalist
post-capitalist
postcapitalist
pre-capitalist
precapitalist
procapitalist
protocapitalist
semicapitalist
state capitalist
supercapitalist
technocapitalist
turbocapitalist
venture capitalist
vulture capitalist
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