A capitalist country or system supports or is based on the principles of capitalism.
I'm a strong believer in the capitalist system.
...capitalist economic theory.
2. countable noun
A capitalist is someone who believes in and supports the principles of capitalism.
...relations between capitalists and workers.
3. countable noun
A capitalist is someone who owns a business which they run in order to make a profit for themselves.
In general, industrialization relied heavily on private capitalists, who built thenew factories and offices.
capitalist in British English
(ˈkæpɪtəlɪst)
noun
1.
a person who owns capital, esp capital invested in a business
2. politics
a supporter of capitalism
3. informal, usually derogatory
a rich person
adjective
4.
of or relating to capital, capitalists, or capitalism
Derived forms
capitalistic (ˌcapitalˈistic)
adjective
capitalist in American English
(ˈkæpətəlɪst)
noun
1.
a person who has capital; owner of wealth used in business
2.
an upholder of capitalism
3. Loosely
a wealthy person
adjective
4.
capitalistic
Examples of 'capitalist' in a sentence
capitalist
We don't need investment from venture capitalists.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A handful of the biggest platforms have won sizeable investment from venture capitalists.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Instead of telling them that a healthy lifestyle would help them live longer they framed it as an act of rebellion against the nefarious capitalist system.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Some of the leading venture capitalists have bought into the idea of'four legs good '.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He managed the company in a way that a venture capitalist would run it.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
He considered it the source of capitalist profits.
Hunt, E. K. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies (1995)
What does it mean to live responsibly within a capitalist system?
Christianity Today (2000)
Harmony of interest and conflict of interest in capitalist production are but aspects of the same reality.
Overbeek, Henk Global Capitalism and National Decline (1989)
Venture capitalists are demanding more from their investments than they did a couple of years ago.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The only solution was the overthrow of the capitalist system.
Kishlansky, Mark A. (editor) Sources of the West: Readings in Western Civilization, Volume 1: From the Beginningto 1715 (1995)
The venture capitalists may have detected something that the politicians have not.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Meanwhile industry struggled against one of those periodic slumps which seemed inseparable from the capitalist system.
Bryant, Arthur The Search for Justice - a history of Britain and the British people Volume III (1990)
It was during this stage that the physical sciences reached something of a zenith under capitalist production relations.
Henry, John F The Making of Neoclassical Economics (1990)
His deconstruction of the capitalist mode of production and the reconstruction of the exploitative relations engaged the prevailing ideological forms.
Lee Harvey Critical Social Research (1990)
The cause of the disastrous slump in economic activity was bad policy rather than anything integral to the capitalist economy.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
These years have likewise been characterized by a deep crisis of American hegemony over the capitalist world.
Overbeek, Henk Global Capitalism and National Decline (1989)
Of course, these restrictions profited some capitalists and harmed others.
Hunt, E. K. Property and Prophets: The Evolution of Economic Institutions and Ideologies (1995)
Manufacturers and other capitalists would profit from the bank's credit facilities.
Garraty, John Arthur The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877 (1995)
For one thing, it was not organized around a capitalist mode of production in the eighteenth century.
Sanderson, Stephen K. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies (1995)
A capitalist economy had to do this.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It did not make "capitalists" out of the workers, nor was it intended to do so.
Peter F. Drucker MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices (1974)
It considers protecting the environment not only as a moral issue but as a set of design challenges to correct inefficiencies that make the capitalist system unsustainable.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
In other languages
capitalist
British English: capitalist ADJECTIVE
A capitalist country or system supports or is based on the principles of capitalism.
...the capitalist system.
American English: capitalist
Brazilian Portuguese: capitalista
Chinese: 基于资本主义原则的
European Spanish: capitalista
French: capitaliste
German: kapitalistisch
Italian: capitalista
Japanese: 資本主義の
Korean: 자본주의의
European Portuguese: capitalista
Latin American Spanish: capitalista
British English: capitalist NOUN
A capitalist is someone who believes in and supports the principles of capitalism.